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“Family affairs” are events and news that relate to a family. Most of the time, it’s a benign way to quickly state what’s going on with our relatives. But it can also be a polite or sarcastic way to discuss unpleasant happenings in the family circle.
I think the phrase "family affairs" is out-dated -- I've encountered it in older books and TV shows (there was a TV show when I was a kid about a widower raising two children called "Family Affair"), but I don't recall hearing anyone use it lately.
It might be "affairs" or "details" or "business" but (almost) never "affair" or "stuff". (One might say "my family affair" in the specific case where the thing you're doing is attending a family reunion.)
Family affair Meaning: An event or activity that involves or is organized by the whole family. Example: The family reunion was a grand family affair with relatives from all over the country. Family dynamics Meaning: The way family members interact and relate to each other.
Persons and family relations mainly deals with the issues of family matters such as marriage, annulment and voiding of marriages, adoption, property settlements between spouses, parental authority, support for spouses and children, emancipation, legitimes (inheritance) of children from their parents and between relatives. [1]
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[countable, usually singular] an event that people are talking about or describing in a particular way. The newspapers exaggerated the whole affair wildly. She wanted the celebration to be a simple family affair. Many people have criticized the way the government handled the affair. The Whitewater affair was the biggest scandal of the decade.
