parentage vs family

parentage and family both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
parentage	Yes	No	No	No
family	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, family is a hyponym of parentage; that is, family is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than parentage:

Other hyponyms of parentage include family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side, breed line.

parentage (noun)	family (noun)
the hereditary derivation of an individual	primary social group; parents and children
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents	people descended from a common ancestor
the state of being a parent	a social unit living together
	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
	a collection of things sharing a common attribute
	an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
	a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
	a person having kinship with another or others