Different family Types Flashcards
The nuclear family
Stereotypically seen as a two generation family with one adult male, one adult female and dependent offspring. It is seen as the norm and ideal by many sociologists.
The symmetrical family
First identified by WILMOTT and YOUNG - it is a form of a nuclear family that is privatised, which means family members spend most of their time together in the home and have little contact with extended kin.
The lone parent family
Families headed by a lone parent and 90% of them are mother headed because custody of children in the uk is usually given to women by family courts
The beanpole family
First identified by Julia Brannen
Has been brought about by : more women working and choosing to marry later in life, so they are having fewer children compared with their own mothers, falling birth rates, falling death rates
A nuclear family that is not part of a wider extended kinship network.
Matrifocal family
Women are at the centre of the family, although they are not necessarily the head of the household.
Extended family
Vertical = includes at least three generations living under the same roof in the immediate neighbourhood Horizontal = contain aunts, uncles and cousins living under the same roof
The reconstituted family
One or both adults have been previously married and the children are living with both a natural parent and a step parent
Empty nest families
The children have grown up and moved out of the parental home
Dual career family
Both Parents in a nuclear family are employed in paid work, the wife and mother has a career that is important to her self development
However potential conflict because of the tensions between career and domestic arrangements especially for women
Cohabitation
Couple lives together as man and wife, although they are not legally married
Cereal packet family
Idealised nuclear family created by advertisers. It compromises a father, mother and two children.
