Editing Family Man (Black Flag album) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic-review">{{cite web| url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/family-man-mw0000197794 | title=Black Flag - Family Man | work=[[AllMusic]] | author=Roach, Pemberton | access-date=July 12, 2017}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Martin C. Strong|The Great Rock Discography]]''
|rev3score = 4/10<ref>{{cite book|title=The Great Rock Discography|author=Martin C. Strong|author-link=Martin C. Strong|edition=1st|year=1998|isbn=978-0-86241-827-4|publisher=[[Canongate Books]]}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev4score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|title=[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]|editor=Gary Graff|editor-link=Gary Graff|edition=1st|year=1996|location=London|isbn=978-0-7876-1037-1|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev5Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Black Flag|editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |first=Rob |last=Sheffield |author-link=Rob Sheffield |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |publisher=[[Fireside Books]] |location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&q=black+flag|access-date=November 5, 2021 }}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
|rev6score = 2/10<ref name="Weisbard">{{cite book|editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor1-link=Eric Weisbard |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |year=1995 |title=[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]|chapter= Blondie|publisher=[[Vintage Books]] |location=New York |isbn=0-679-75574-8|pages=44-45}}</ref>
}}

In a retrospective review of the album, [[AllMusic]] critic Pemberton Roach wrote: "Although sounding at times like a high-school garage band attempting to perform [[Rush (band)|Rush]] covers, Ginn and company play with a sense of desperation and punk rock fury that makes much of the music positively electrifying." Roach also added: "Overall, ''Family Man'' is an essential, if atypical, part of the Black Flag canon and should appeal to fans of [[Sun Ra]], [[Ornette Coleman]], or the New York "[[Noise music|noise]]" scene as well."<ref name="allmusic-review"/> In 2006, ''[[All About Jazz]]'''s Trevor Maclaren stated that "for those who seek a real adventure and think that [[Last Exit (free jazz band)|Last Exit]] was perhaps too extreme, Black Flag's ''Family Man'' and ''[[The Process of Weeding Out]]'' are choice lost gems."<ref name="jazz">{{cite web| url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/black-flag-family-man-and-the-process-of-weeding-out-by-trevor-maclaren.php?pg=2 | title=Black Flag: Family Man & The Process of Weeding Out | work=[[AllAboutJazz]] |access-date=July 12, 2017 | date=February 1, 2006 | author=Maclaren, Trevor}}</ref>

[[Eric Weisbard]] of ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]'' (1995) named it the worst of the four albums Black Flag released in 1984, opining that it is "half lame instrumentals, half Rollins inventing the poetry-slam spoken word thang, the latter of import historically at least: more [[Lollapalooza|Lolla]] foreshadowing!"<ref name="Weisbard" /> ''[[Trouser Press]]''{{'}}s Ira Robbins comments that "''Family Man'' deconstructs Black Flag into a side of Rollins reading his poetry and a side of group instrumentals."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Robbins |first1=Ira |title=Black Flag |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/black-flag/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=March 23, 2025}}</ref>