Family Types and Relationships

Question 1

Monogamy

Answer 1

One husband and one wife

Most common in Europe, US and most Christian cultures

Question 2

Serial monogamy

Answer 2

A series of monogamous marriages

Found in areas of high divorce rates

Question 3

Arranged marriage

Answer 3

Marriage arranged by parents to match their children with a partner of a similar background and status

Question 4

Polygamy

Answer 4

Marriage to more than one partner at the same time

Question 5

Polygyny

Answer 5

One husband and two or more wives

Question 6

Polyandry

Answer 6

One wife, two or more husbands

(more common than polygyny)

Question 7

Nuclear family

Answer 7

Two generations: parents and children living in the same househole

Question 8

Cereal packet family

Answer 8

a functionalist concept which argues that the idealised version of the family is the nuclear family of mother, father an two children.

Question 9

Extended family

Answer 9

All kin including and beyond the nuclear family

Question 10

Reconstituted family

Answer 10

Step family. One or both partners previously married, with children from the marriage

Question 11

Lone parent family

Answer 11

One parent and children

Question 12

Same sex family

Answer 12

Homosexual couple and children

Question 13

Cohabitation

Answer 13

Living together and having a sexual relationship without marriage

Question 14

Boomerang children

Answer 14

Grown up children who return to live with parents

Question 15

Symmetrical family

Answer 15

Authority and household tasks shared between both partners