What is a family?
- Created by: abinaa_02
- Created on: 14-01-15 12:14
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- Families and Households
- Types of Families:
- Nuclear Family: Composed of a couple and their children
- Reconstituted Family: when two families join together via remarriage or cohabitation. They have children from previous marriages.
- Cohabitation: when a couple are not married however are living together.
- Single Parent Family: a single parent with child
- Extended Family Horizontal: Living with Uncles or Aunts. The parents siblings and their children.
- Extended Family Vertical: Living with Grandparents.
- Beanpole Family: Long thin family structure but live apart.
- Same Sex family: Family composed of a couple that are of the same sex.
- Changing patterns in Family
- Monogamy: Being married to one person,. One man and one woman.
- Serial Monogamy: a series of long term relationships .
- Polygamy: One man married to many women Increases number of children.
- Polyandry: One woman married to a lot of men. Restricts the number of children.
- Types of Families:
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