I'm confused, if we take out the paycheck how many people have lost or broken off contact with parts or all of their family? The people are still your family bu

I'm confused, if we take out the paycheck how many people have lost or broken off contact with parts or all of their family? The people are still your family but you might have not talked to them for decades, so you're maybe only part of it on paper but not in practice? So that's why I think the family term makes no sense, because there are a million possible constellations for family/immediate family/in contact/etc.