Ideally, our family will be the one we were born into. But it might be a group of friends, people who have been through the same experiences as you, or people brought together by love.

The author Jane Howard wrote, “Call it a clan, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”

As the actor Michael J Fox pointed out, “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything!”

• Clan
• Family
• Love
• Tribe