"Kids need separate space though, so the family can still function like a family and not feel like they're on display."

Teaches family members about how families function in general and, in particular, how their own functions.

However, through the social organization provided by the church, minimal incomes and small-town rural life, most families functioned reasonably well until the 1950's.

Before 1870, there were no banks in New Mexico, so merchant families functioned as financial institutions by holding deposits, extending credit and even mortgages.

He had 10 children, and I kept trying to imagine how a family of 12 functioned in these tiny quarters.

Indian families are patriarchal and often function as corporate economic units.

This family couldn't function without her.

A generation ago, many families could function well with one car.

In the long run, he said, penalties can teach families to function.

"But, Jay," Robert said, without missing a beat, "our family doesn't function."