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title: "What are Families?"
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# What are Families?

Attachments, embedded docs, and images - here's what you need to know about parent-child relationships between documents.

## Introduction

Families are the relationship between a parent document and its children.

## Parents, Children, and Standalone Documents

**Parent document:** documents that *include/have* attachments/embedded files.

**Child/Children document(s)**: documents that *are* attachments/embedded files. For example, an email with attachments: the email would be the parent document, and the attachments would be its children. **Standalone documents** are those that do not have any attachments/embedded files.

[**How to Include family stats in search results, Filter on Family Status, and View Families in Document Viewer**](/logikcull/docs/search-and-filter-on-document-familiesnbsp)