Personally, I believe that it is both necessary and in good business practice to separate family and business matters in today’s world with all the guidelines and laws in place. This remains true even during ‘business trips’ where a rep will take out a physician and the physician’s family decides to come along. While I agree with what sahitya.sadineni, krp76, and countless others said before me, there needs to be a definite line between work life and family life. Although I think it is generally in poor taste, I would like to reiterate that that if the family decides to accompany the physician on the trip, the rep is in no way obliged (nor supposed to) compensate them for their stay as well. After all, in a purely business perspective, the business is between the physician and the rep alone; the rest of the family is simply an unnecessary expense to the meeting.