What are some quotes from The Outsiders about family and importance?

In chapter 1, Ponyboy tells readers that the greaser gang is essentially his family. His mom and dad are dead, and he has his two brothers; however, the gang is such a tight-knit group of friends that Ponyboy considers them brothers rather than friends.

Or I could have gotten one of the gang to come along, one of the four boys Darry and Soda and I have grown up with and consider family. We're almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.

The importance of the gang as family is really driven home to readers as Johnny is dying in the hospital. The doctors don't want anybody except family to come see Johnny, yet the boys in the gang adamantly defend the fact that they are the only family that Johnny really has.

The nurses wouldn't tell us anything about Johnny and Dally, so Darry got hold of the doctor. The doctor told us that he would talk only to the family, but Darry finally got it through the guy's head that we were about as much family as Dally and Johnny had.

In chapter 3, Ponyboy explains a little bit more about his parents and the life that he and his brothers are living. It's not a rosy picture. Ponyboy tells readers that the three of them are basically just hanging on. There isn't any concept of improving their lives. Darry works himself to the bone, and Soda also has to lend a hand with work just in order to keep Ponyboy in school.

Sodapop... a dropout so he could get a job and keep me in school, and Darry, getting old before his time trying to run a family and hold on to two jobs and never having any fun....