Types of family

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  • Created by: Emily1918
  • Created on: 29-11-16 07:44

Define "family."

A unit of people that are connected by blood, marriage or adoption.

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Nuclear family

A two- generation family, containing a man and a women and their depeandant children.

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Extended family

Any group of kin that is extended past the nuclear family. 

It can be horizontally extended (aunts, uncles, cousins.) Or vertically extended (grandparents.)

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Lone parent family

One parent and his/her dependant children.

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Reconstituted family

New family is created after divorce or seperation. 

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Empty nest family

Originally a nuclear family but the children are no longer dependant and have left home.

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Dual worker family

Both parents are working.

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Cohabiting couple

Couples that live together but arent married.

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