I think it can be no other way except in some twisted way.  The family is the first and more important source of human relationships.  It is there where individuals learn how to behave, how to think, how to relate to one another, how to love.  Only after this source of relationship do humans experience other relationships – to co-workers, teachers, officials, colleagues, etc.  What, then, is “society”, other than the sum of human families which are bound together within a common culture or nation?  So yes, the family is the basis of society.

I agree but still not going to touch this piece of metaphysics.