We gained a lot of money, but we lost a lot of family closeness and our own food.

Establish a feeling of family closeness within the group.

They both believed in hard work and family closeness.

But the family closeness shattered shortly after Virginia Null, a credit union manager, died of cancer in March 2000 at the age of 62.

"A lot of second homes are about family closeness, which is nice," Mr. Moss said.

Family members sometimes unthinkingly cling to traditions as a way of maintaining family closeness.

I will always be indebted to this youngest of our children for showing us that parental guidance and family closeness are not dependent on physical proximity.

Mourning was always a time for family closeness.

They'd gone their separate ways too long, however, for any family closeness between them.

I was breathing easier: The claustrophobia induced by family closeness was loosening its knot.