Family

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

A social institution containing a group of people with shared biological and/or residence.

Question 2

Adoption

Answer 2

A process involving non-biological parents requesting legal rights and responsibly for a chid. Adoption can occur between related family members or unrelated individual.

Question 3

Nuclear Family

Answer 3

A social group consists of a mother, a father and any number of dependant children (either their own or adopted) spanning two generations who live together in the same household.

Question 4

Extended family

Answer 4

Social group containing immediate families members and immediate family members spanning two or more generations, such as aunts, uncles, cousins, and other descendants form a common ancestor.

Question 5

Cohabitation

Answer 5

A living situation whereby two or more unmarried adults share a household over a prolonged period.

Question 6

One parent family

Answer 6

Families based on a person who is not in a couple of relationships but forms a parent-child relationship which at least one other person(child) in the same household.

Question 7

Stepfamily

Answer 7

A family structure involving both or one of the adults bringing children from a previous relationship into the current relationship- The stepfamily (sometimes referred to as a blended family or a reconstituted family

Question 8

Same sex couple parenting

Answer 8

A social structure that encompasses a range of family arrangements including children raised by or adult couples with at least one LGBT partner, or a lone parent identified as LGBT