Types of families
- Created by: hannahyell
- Created on: 07-10-16 11:27
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- Types of Families
- NUCLEAR FAMILY
- 'cereal packet family
- Mother, father and children (all biologically related)
- Often seen as the ideal family type
- But what about stress? pressure? racist?
- SAME SEX FAMILY
- Likely/possibly have children
- the mother/father figures are the same sex
- ADOPTIVE & FOSTER FAMILIES
- FOSTERING
- Provide home for child for a certain length of time
- Paid to look after the child
- Could be due to issues of drugs, bereavement
- ADOPTING
- Legally become parents of the child
- Untitled
- FOSTERING
- EXTENDED FAMILY
- Other families live with you
- Usually 3 generations living under one roof
- White British families do not tend to live in this type of family
- Indian families are much more likely to live in this family type - culture difference
- SINGLE PARENT FAMILY
- Divorce
- Bereavement
- Woman decides to have child when she does not have a partner - IVF or sperm donor
- 'One night stand'
- One of the parents left early on - could be mother or father
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- NUCLEAR FAMILY
- Sometimes families can live part time in nuclear families and part time in single parent families because one of the parents are in the forces.
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