Families and Households: Family Types

Question 1

Define a family

Answer 1

A group of people who are related to each other

Question 2

Define Beanpole

Answer 2

A family made up of different generations with a few members in each generation

Question 3

Define Cohabiting

Answer 3

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Question 4

Define Divorce Extended

Answer 4

Extended family members including sister and brother in laws, cousins, aunts and uncles grow close to the spouse

Question 5

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Answer 5

A marriage where the spouses continue to live under the same roof but live as separate individuals

Question 6

Define Extended Family

Answer 6

Extends beyond Nuclear Family with aunts, uncles and cousins all living in the same household

Question 7

Define Fictive Kin

Answer 7

Kinship or social ties that aren’t based on blood ties or marriage

Question 8

Define Household

Answer 8

A household is one person living alone or a group of people who share living arrangements at the same address

Question 9

Define Kinship

Answer 9

Based on ties of blood, marriage or adoption

Question 10

Define Living Apart Together

Answer 10

Couples who have an intimate relationship but live at separate addresses

Question 11

Define Matriarchal

Answer 11

A social system organised around the principle of mother rule where mothers or women are top of the power structure

Question 12

Define Matrilocal

Answer 12

When the husband goes to live with the wife’s family

Question 13

Define Matrifocal

Answer 13

Family unit headed by mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods

Question 14

Define Monogamy

Answer 14

Married to or in a sexual relationship with one person at a time.

Question 15

Define Nuclear Family

Answer 15

Traditional family structure consisting of two parents and children

Question 16

Define Patriarchal

Answer 16

A social system where family systems or societies are organised around the idea of father rule.

Question 17

Define Patrilocal

Answer 17

Social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husbands parents.

Question 18

Define Polyandry

Answer 18

The state or practice of having more than one husband or male mate at one time.

Question 19

Define Polygamy

Answer 19

The practice of marrying multiple spouses.

Question 20

Define Polygyny

Answer 20

When a man is married to more than one wife at a time

Question 21

Define Pure Relationship

Answer 21

Involves opening out to each other enjoying each others unique qualities and sustaining trust through mutual disclosure.

Question 22

Define Reconstituted Family

Answer 22

A family unit where one or both parents have children from a previous relationship but have combined to form a new family.

Question 23

Define Same Sex

Answer 23

Couples of the same gender.

Question 24

Define Single Parent

Answer 24

Families with children under 18 headed by a parent who is widowed or divorced and not remarried or by a parent who had never married.

Question 25

Define Fraternity Polyandry

Answer 25

Brothers married to one wife.