Forms of households Flashcards
1
Q
Family
A
A group of people represented by kinship ties
2
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Kinship
A
Relations of blood, marriage/civil partnership or adoption
3
Q
Cohabitation
A
Living together without the legal bonds of marriage
4
Q
Household
A
One person living alone or a group of people living at the same address and sharing living arrangements
5
Q
Polyandry
A
One wife and two or more husbands
6
Q
Lone parent family
A
household headed by one parent, typically a mother.
7
Q
Traditional nuclear family
A
Family mad up of 2 parents and their children. There is a father (typically financial roles) and a mother (emotional and conjugal role).
8
Q
Cohabiting couple
A
Couples living totgther not yet married or chosen not to marry at all.
