Address book family cards

The Mountain Lion forum was my best guess where I might post this. Does anyone know of third party software to accomplish what I wish were standard in the Contacts app?
Here's what I want: Family cards (or just Families).
I've got a brother, John Doe. His wife is Jane Doe. They have three kids: Tom, Dick and Harry Doe.
So in Contacts I've got cards for John, Jane, and Tom, but not for the youngest kids. They just moved. Now I've got to change the mailing address separately for all three, though it's literally the same piece of information. Ditto for their land line phone (how quaint!). Tom has gone off to college, he has a different mailing address, though it's sometimes appropriate to mail things to him at John and Jane's home. When John and Jane moved, Tom's college address stayed the same, of course.
I've got two friends: Jimmy Jones and Janet Jones (not the mass murderer or the actress). They're really just acquaintences, but I send them a holiday card every year. I currently have one address card, "Jimmy & Janet Jones," which irks me, because it's not one person with the odd first name "Jimmy & Janet" but two separate people. One day I may have need to call them, though, and they have two cell phone numbers. I could add them both to the contact and create custom labels like "Jimmy" and "Janet"...but that doesn't scale if I do that often.
What I would REALLY like is a new Family card. I would create such a card, say "John, Jane and Family". I would associate Joh, Jane and Tom's cards with this family card. I could also add the names of Dick and Harry to the card, and optionally create new cards for them. Each individual card would contain the data unique to the individual: mobile phone, email, Facebook page, Skype account, birthday, whatever. The Family card would contain shared information, like mailing addresses and land lines.
View the Family card, and see all the aggregated information, such as everyone's individual cell numbers, auto-labelled with first names; plus the shared family information, such as mailing address. View any individual's card and see that contact's info, plus any shared info for the family. Tom would list the shared family address (John and Jane's) and would also have, individually, his own college address, which is also displayed on the Family card, appropriately labelled.
Right now, I have a "Holiday cards" group. We access it each year. It's a mishmash of individuals, shared "&" address cards and other inconsistent constructs. What it SHOULD be is a list of Family cards and unconnected individual cards.
Does anyone know of a piece of third-party software that creates this kind of arrangement? One that would integrate with Contacts (even if it's just behind the scenes managing the existing Contacts structure but doing the legwork of updating each individual card to reflect changing data)?

I'm trying to overcome a different problem but wonder if your problem might have something to do with you preference settings.

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