biofamily

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ family.

Noun

biofamily (plural biofamilies)

1. Biological family.
   • 1979, Armand Lauffer, Bonnie E. Carlson, Resources for Child Placement and Other Human Services, page 28:

     White children have a better chance, apparently, of being returned to their biofamilies than do children of black and other minority families.

   • 1988, Pat Califia, Macho Sluts, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 188:

     Most people are at home, eating dinner with their collectives or their biofamilies.

   • 1998, Thomas J. Dishion, Fuzhong Li, Kathleen Spracklen, Gene Brown, Eric Haas, “Measurement of Parenting Practices in Research on Adolescent Problem Behavior: A Multimethod and Multitrait Analysis”, in Rebecca S. Ashery, Elizabeth B. Robertson, Karol L. Kumpfer, editors, Drug Abuse Prevention Through Family Interventions (National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Monograph Series; volume 177), page 287:

     Parameter estimates (i.e., the correlations between family status and all four trait factors) showed no statistical significancies except for the relationship quality construct, 0.20, t = 2.28, p < 0.05, which suggested that the single-parent family tended to exhibit better relationship quality than the biofamily and stepfamily parents.

Synonyms

• birthfamily