biofamily

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noun

Biological family.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounbiofamily (plural biofamilies)

plural biofamilies

  1. Biological family.

    Most people are at home, eating dinner with their collectives or their biofamilies.

    1988, Pat Califia, Macho Sluts, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 188
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    White children have a better chance, apparently, of being returned to their biofamilies than do children of black and other minority families.

    1979, Armand Lauffer, Bonnie E. Carlson, Resources for Child Placement and Other Human Services, page 28

    Parameter estimates (i.e., the correlations between family status and all four trait factors) showed no statistical significancies except for the relationship quality construct, 0.20, t = 2.28, p < 0.05, which suggested that the single-parent family tended to exhibit better relationship quality than the biofamily and stepfamily parents.

    1998, Thomas J. Dishion, Fuzhong Li, Kathleen Spracklen, Gene Brown, Eric Haas, “Measurement of Parenting Practices in Research on Adolescent Problem Behavior: A Multimethod and Multitrait Analysis”, in Rebecca S. Ashery, Elizabeth B. Robertson, Karol L. Kumpfer, editors, Drug Abuse Prevention Through Family Interventions (National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Monograph Series; volume 177), page 287

    Synonyms: birthfamily

Synonyms & antonyms

nounBiological family.

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