Types of families

Question 1

what is a household?

Answer 1

A group of people who live together who may or may not have family or kinship ties
- families make up the majority of households but there are other types e.g. students/friends/house shares

Question 2

What is a family ?

Answer 2

type of household where the people living together are related.
-most commonly a kinship group

Question 3

What is a kinship?

Answer 3

related by birth or blood e.g. parents, grandparents and cousins

Question 4

What is a Nuclear family?

Answer 4

Two generations living together or close by that have frequent contact through grandparents grandchildren aunts and cousins

Question 5

What is traditional extended family?

Answer 5

Three or more generations of the same family living together or close by with frequent contact

Question 6

what us attenuated extended family?

Answer 6

Nuclear families that live apart from their extended family but keep in regular contact

Question 7

what is a Lone parent family?

Answer 7

A single parent and their dependent child

Question 8

what is a reconstituted family?

Answer 8

new step families created when parts of two previous families are brought together