To More Accurately Reflect the Changes in Family Life, the Textbook

To more accurately reflect the changes in family life, the textbook provides a more encompassing definition of what constitutes a family. Accordingly, the textbook defines family as __________.

A) a social network of people into which a person is born, composed of relatives, parents and children who live in the same household
B) a group of people which consist of a husband and wife, children from previous marriages, and children (if any) from the new marriage
C) a relationship in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group
D) a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption