can you tell me 10 interesting facts about family
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I was told that my only brother (almost 4 years older) was in fact my half-brother, when I was about 12.
All my immediate family members(father, mother, half-brother, me) were born somewhere in Oklahoma.
Dad joined the Navy and served in the Korean War, on a ship stationed in Japan.
Dad started attending O.U. after marrying Mom.
I am told that I was not planned on.
I was born 10 months and a few days after their marriage.
Dad graduated, and in the years following, the family moved to Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, back to Oklahoma, California, and London, UK, where I spend my senior year of high school.
I applied to three universities, and was wait-listed then accepted by two of them.
I wound up going to the one that offered the best financial package in Pasadena, California.
Meanwhile, my parents continued to move around, based on the requirements of Dad's job, to places including Northern Ireland, Oman, Singapore, Jakarta, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.
Answer:
1. The definition of a ‘family’ used by the Office for National Statistics is “a married, civil partnered or cohabiting couple with or without children, or a lone parent with at least one child”.
2. By that definition, according to the ONS, there were 18.2 million families in the UK in 2012.
3. Of those, 12.2 million consisted of a married couple with or without children.
4. Until the late 17th century, ‘family’ included not only relatives but also the servants of a household.
5. The word derives from the Latin ‘famulus’, meaning ‘a servant’.
6. A poll in 1997 reported that 35 per cent of lorry drivers think of their families while driving. Only seven per cent think of sex, drink and a night out.
7. More than two-thirds of homicide victims in the UK are killed by partners, ex-partners or other family members.
8. Forty-seven per cent of families with dependent children have only one child.
9. The first recorded use of the phrase “family size in retailing was in 1882.
10. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish very gently