family types
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- Created on: 07-01-18 12:49
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- family types
- family structure
- composition of a group of people who live together as a family unit
- family diversity
- household
- a household is one person living alone/ a group of people living together. This group of people may or may not be related.
- a range of different family types existing in society rather than one single dominant family. Mainly due to increasing choice about relationships
- household
- cereal packet family
- a married couple of man and woman with their 2 children, usually a girl and a boy. The media like to promote this type of family
- modified extended family
- extended family groupings whose members live apart geographically but maintain regular contact and provide support.
- classic extended family
- any group of kin extended beyond the nuclear family who live together in the same house. Vertically extended are grandparents, horizontally extended are aunts, uncles etc.
- privatised nuclear family
- a nuclear family whose lifestyle and leisure patterns centre on the home rather than the extended family, friends, workmates or wider community.
- nuclear family
- two generation family of a man and woman and their dependant child/children, own or adopted.
- beanpole family
- four generation or multi-generation families that are long and thin in structure due to having more vertical ties.
- lone parent family
- one parent and a dependant child/children who live together. Usually headed by the mother.
- empty nest household
- This is when a couples children have left home leaving the couple behind in the house
- reconstituted family
- step family where one or both partners have a child/children from a previous relationship.
- same sex family
- a gay/lesbian couple, who live together with their children, own or adopted.
- cohabitation
- an unmarried heterosexual/ homosexual couple who live together.
- commune
- groups of related and unrelated people, couples, families all living together in a small isolated community based on principles of self reliance etc.
- family structure
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