I'd say be absorbed. In the long run there aren't enough Italian criminals to have 5 distinct families, especially as so many of the older guys are dying/getting locked up for life now.
Wait and see if in 20 or so years they don't merge more and more until for all intents and purposes they become a single family.
idk about that, not in 20 or so years anyways, maybe in like 75/100...
Tommy Shots: They want me running the family, don't they know I have a young wife? Sal Vitale: (laughs) Tommy, jump in, the water's fine.