A household is a group of people who live together, they may or may not be related through blood or marriage. They may share bills, housework etc. It can also just be 'one-person'.
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Family
A family is a form of household where all the people who live together are related through either kinship or marriage
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Marriage
Religious or cultural ceremony which marks a couple as married.
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Monogamy
Marriage of one man and one woman.
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Polygamy
General term to describe when one partner has more than one partner.
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Polygyny
The marriage of one man to ma number of wives.
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Polyandry
The marriage of one woman to a number of husbands.
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Nuclear Family
Consists of parentsof opposite sexes and one or more children, and may be married or cohabiting couples.
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'Cereal Packet' Family
Generally consists of a youngish mother and father and their two children, they are normally reasonably well off, closely intergrated - and most of the tome they are smiling.
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Extended Family
The extended family is an extension of the typical nuclear family with more than two generations. This includes all relatives outside the immediate family e.g. grandparents and cousins.
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Beanpole Family
A version of the extended family which has a long thin structure. Here,there are several generations in a family but not many members (e.g. one great-grandparent, one grandparent, two parents, two children).
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Same-Sex Family
Two parents of the same gender and one or more children.
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Lone-Parent (Single-Parent) Family
The single-parent family consists of only one parent and one or more children.
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Reconstituted Family
The reconstituted family is a family that has been through separation or divorce but is now back together or where one single parent family has intertwined with another.
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A family is a form of household where all the people who live together are related through either kinship or marriage
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Family
Card 3
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Religious or cultural ceremony which marks a couple as married.
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Card 4
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Marriage of one man and one woman.
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Card 5
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General term to describe when one partner has more than one partner.
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