According to Friedman, Bowden & Jones, which one of the following definitions of family is b optimalb0 for family nursing professionals to use when assessing and planning care for individual and family clients?}
The family is two or more persons who are joined together by bonds of sharing and emotional closeness and who identify themselves as being part of a family.
The family is a self-identified group of two or more individuals whose association is characterized by special terms, who may or may not be related by blood lines or law; but who function in such a way that they consider themselves to be a family.
The family is composed of persons joined together by bonds of marriage, blood, or adoption and residing in the same household.
The family is a small, open social system composed of a set of highly interdependent parts and affected by both its internal structure and external environment.