What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.