"It was a very functional family," he says, somewhat apologetically.

Diane stares at Jack and after a short time both enter the house together as a functional family.

Two years later, the Tabers have despaired of ever having a functional family.

But those in need of stereotype, or perhaps illusion, reinforcement - this is a happy, functional family?

It operates in a similar fashion to a functional family with a hierarchical structure of older and younger members.

Christian faith as the basis of a strong, functional family was the theme tying the episodes together.

"When you've got a functional family, doesn't everybody learn from their father and mother?"

I have a healthy, happy, very functional family, and that took a lot of work.

We did without some things, but we all ended up with advanced degrees and functional families of our own.

Too many American children of all races lack functional families.