Stem family: a family consisting of a couple, a pair of married children, and unmarried brothers and sisters

Nuclear family: a family consisting of one parent and their unmarried children

Joint family: A type of family formed after the marriage of two or more people of the same gender who are related by blood and their spouses and children, or two or more siblings of the same generation.

Family is a living unit

A family is a common living unit composed of a certain range of relatives

Family members share legal rights and obligations to each other

entertainment function

economic function

Educational function

population function

Support and support functions

Narrow sense: refers to the activities and processes that parents or other elders in the family consciously and consciously influence on their children in daily life.

Broadly speaking: Family education refers to a kind of education implemented by family members among themselves.

Family education is a kind of private education

Family education is a kind of informal education

Family education is lifelong education

The significance of family education to students’ individual growth

The significance of family education to school development

The significance of family education to teachers’ professional development