Different Family Structures

Question 1

household

Answer 1

group of people who live together but aren’t related

Question 2

singleton

Answer 2

person who’s living alone

Question 3

Reconstituted family

Answer 3

step family made of a couple with kids who aren’t their biological offspring

Question 4

nuclear family

Answer 4

man and woman living together with biological, adopted kids

usually isolated geographically and socially from their wider kin

Question 5

cohabiting family

Answer 5

an unmarried couple who live together in a sexual relationship with/ without kids

Question 6

classic extended family

Answer 6

wide kin- relatives live together

Question 7

modified extended family

Answer 7

nuclear families that live separately, they maintain close ties through frequent visits and phone calls

Question 8

beanpole family

Answer 8

Multigenerational family with a few people in each generation

Question 9

LATS

Answer 9

Living apart together

families who dont live together

Question 10

DINKS

Answer 10

Dual income no kids

married couple in employment with no kids

Question 11

Empty nest family

Answer 11

old couple living together once the kids grow up

start off as nuclear family

Question 12

Lone parent family

Answer 12

mum/ dad with kids

Question 13

matrifocal family

Answer 13

mum is head of a family

Question 14

same sex family

Answer 14

became legal after Civil Partnership Act in 2005

Question 15

MURDOCK’S 1949 DEFINITION OF FAMILY

Answer 15

a social group who live together and share income and household tasks with some division of labour. It must consist of a man and woman who are married and have a sexual relationship that reproduce and have biological or adopted children