Types Of Family Flashcards
What is the nuclear family?
Two generation family
A mum, dad and a dependent offspring
Seen as ideal and norm by many sociologists
What is the symmetrical family?
A privatised nuclear family
Family members spend most of the time at homes and have little contact with extended kin
Joint conjugal roles
Who came up with the symmetrical family?
Willmott & Young
What is the lone-parent family?
Families with only 1 parent
Around 90% are single mothers in the UK
What is the Matrifocal family?
Where women are the centre of the family
Squire - family headed by the mother
Usually a women with their dependent children and maybe a grandmother
Usually low income or poor communities
What is a Beanpole Family?
Nuclear family that is not apart of an extended kinship
This is due to over the last 40 years there has been a reduction in the number of children that families have
likely to have a strong relationship with Grandparents or even Great grandparents due to higher life expectancy
Who came up with the Beanpole family?
Brannen
What are the 2 types of extended family?
vertical extended family
Horizontal extended family
What is a vertical extended family?
At least 3 generations living under the same roof or in the immediate neighbourhood
Foster - examples in the East End of London in the 80s
What is a horizontal extended family?
Contains aunts uncles or cousins living under the same roof
sikhs in the UK tend to live in horizontal extended family units
What is a reconstituted family?
When one or both of the parents have been previously married
The children live with the natural and step parents
potentially with other step siblings too
What is an empty nest family?
When the children have left home
What is Cohabitation?
When couples live together
Can be Nubile Cohabitation before marriage
or
Post marital Cohabitation
