Different Family Types Flashcards
What is the nuclear family?
A two generational family, a male and female adult dependant on offspring.
True or false the nuclear family is seen as the norm and ideal and who is this seen particularly by?
True- particularly new right and functionalists
What is the symmetrical family?
A form of nuclear family-
Privatised family members who spend most time together in home and have little contact with extended
Who first identified the symmetrical family and in what year?
Wilmott and Young in 1973
What is a lone parent family?
Single parent
What percentage of lone parent families are mother headed?
90%
What is an empty nest family?
Children have grown up and moved out of family home
What is the beanpole family?
Type of nuclear family where there is no extended Kin network. People are having less kids so less extended family (uncles etc) so children expected to have close relationship with grandparents as longer life expectancy
What did Julie and Brannen say are the three factors that bought about the beanpole family?
- More women are working and choosing to marry later and have fewer children
- Falling birth rate- less families with many siblings
- Falling death rates- some families have 4 generations
What is the extended family?
A family unit with relatives beyond the core of nuclear family unit in same roof/ nearby
What is a vertical extended family?
3 generations living under the same roof/ at least immediate neighbours
What is the Horizontal extended family?
Aunts, uncles, cousins under the same roof
What is the matrimonial family?
Women at the centre of the family- not necessarily the head
Often consist of a women with her children and grandmother
What is the reconstituted family?
One/ both parents have previously married and have children living with both a natural parent and step parent
What does cohabitation mean?
A couple living together not married
