Defining the family

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  • Created on: 04-10-12 20:19
Family
A group of people living together related by blood or marriage, who support themselves economically and socially
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Household
A group of people who live together and share things such as meals, bills, facilities or chores; or one person living alone
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Nuclear family
A two-generation family of a man and a women and their dependant children, own or adopted
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Extended family
Any group of kin extended beyond the nuclear family. The family may be extended vertically (e.g. grandparents), horizontally (e.g. aunts, uncles, cousins), or both
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Co-habiting
An unmarried couple in a sexual relationship living together
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Lone-parent family
A family consisting of one parent and a child or children living together
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Reconstituted/ step family
A step family, in which one or both partners has children has children from a previous relationship
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Single-person household
A person who lives alone
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Kin
People related by blood, marriage or adoption
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Marriage
Religious or cultural ceremony which marks a couple as married
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Monogamy
A marriage of one man and one woman
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Polygamy
A general term to describe when one partner has more than one partner
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Polyandry
The marriage of one woman with a number of husbands
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Patrilineal
Kinship groupings based on male biological relatives; inheritance through the male line
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Matrilineal
Kinship groupings based on female biological relatives; inheritance through the female line
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Patrifocal
Family will be focused on the man
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Matrifocal
Family will be focused on the woman; The woman is the head of the house
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Household

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A group of people who live together and share things such as meals, bills, facilities or chores; or one person living alone

Card 3

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Nuclear family

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Card 4

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Extended family

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Card 5

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Co-habiting

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