Family

Question 1

What is a family?

Answer 1

A group of people who live together,who are related by marriage,DNA or relationships.

Question 2

What is a household?

Answer 2

A group of people living together in a domestic dwelling. They do not have to be related, they could be friends or roommates.

Question 3

What is a Nuclear family?

Answer 3

A family which consists of a Mam,Dad, and dependant children. Also known as the ‘cereal packet’ family.

Question 4

What is cohabitation?

Answer 4

When a couple live together without being married with or without children.

Question 5

What is a reconstituted family?

Answer 5

This is when a family is formed when two adults remarry or cohabit and live together with children from previous marriages.

Question 6

What is a extended family?

Answer 6

A nuclear family consisting of other relatives usually living together in one home.

• inter generational(grandparents)
• intra generational(aunties/uncles/cousins)

Question 7

What is a lone parent family?

Answer 7

This is a family headed by one parent with dependant children.

Question 8

Give one example of how the family has changed in the last 50 years.

Answer 8

• the household is more symmetrical
• divorce is accepted
• there are more lone parent and cohabiting families
• more secularised therefore marriage is not needed
• women are now too breadwinners

Question 9

What are the four functions of the family?

Answer 9

• reproduction
• primary socialisation
• economic provision
• emotional gratification

Question 10

What are the main types of domestic violence which can be performed in a household?

Answer 10

• physical
• emotional
• bullying
• intimidation
• manipulation
• cyber bullying

Question 11

What is domestic violence?

Answer 11

Any incidence of threatening behaviour,violence or abuse between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members,regardless of gender or sexuality.

Question 12

How often is domestic violence committed against women in the household?

Answer 12

One incident of domestic violence is reported to the police every minute in the uk, that does not count the un-reported victims.

Question 13

What is meant by ‘life course analysis’?

Answer 13

When people move between different family types in society.

Question 14

Give one reason why the rates of marriage have decreased from 50 years ago.

Answer 14

• society is more secularised
• increased in cohabitation
• people get married later
• civil partnerships have increased

Question 15

How can divorce effect children?

Answer 15

• depression
• loneliness
• stress from moving from house to house
• not seeing one parent enough or at all
• feeling pushed out

Question 16

Give one example of how childhood has changed throughout the past 50 years.

Answer 16

• homes are now child centred as they have a say in the family
• less children in families
• children are an investment of the future