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Whether you’re thinking of starting a small business or already own one, there will probably come a time when you’ll consider hiring family members as employees. Hiring members of your family can pose some pitfalls of course, but it also offers you some nice benefits that make the idea worth looking into. Carolyn M. Brown, senior content producer at BlackEnterprise made a great point when she said “Running a successful family business doesn’t mean running an entitlement program where if you have the right last name you are guaranteed a job and a certain title.”