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Choose Your Family

This is the place for people to develop family-type relationships with people other than their IRL family. The goal is to create strong and supportive bonds between people, that often go beyond the typical fleeting relationship with other Redditors.

26k subscribers131 posts / mo in Sep 202694 authors / mosince 2016

r/FamiliesYouChoose has 26k members (+14% over the last 12 months). It gets about 131 posts a month from 94 people. Top topics: Parental Issues, Make Friends and New Users.

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How r/FamiliesYouChoose has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+14%in 12 months · +5.9% in 3 months
Oct 202626k
Growing26k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+70%vs Sep 2025 · +15% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026131
BusierPeaked at 179 in Jun 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/FamiliesYouChoose

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Parental Issues<0.1%
  2. Make Friends<0.1%
  3. New Users<0.1%
  4. Making Friends<0.1%

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research