Nuclear; mother/father + children
Reconstituted or Step; one or both parents have remarried/new partner
single; one parent looks after the children and makes the major decisions
adoptive; child is legally given a new set of parents permanently, not gentically connected
shared care; split parents who make joint care decisions
same sex; where to people of same sex have a baby through adoption/ surrogacy or sperm donation
foster family;where a child is placed with another family for short or long periods of time
extented; when another family of a different generation lives with the family
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