Types Of Family/Households

Question 1

Nuclear

Answer 1

A two generation family of a man and a women and their dependant children (own or adopted)

Question 2

Kinship

Answer 2

Kinship refers to blood relatives or people connected because they are marital partners. People can enter kinship through adoption and fostering

Question 3

Household

Answer 3

People sharing a house. This may be students and increasingly is made of people living alone.

Question 4

Extended family

Answer 4

Any group of kin (people related by blood, marriage or adoption) extended beyond nuclear family (vertically - grandparents, horizontally - Aunts, uncles)

Question 5

Modified extended family

Answer 5

An extended family living far apart but keeping in touch by phone, letters, email and frequent visits

Question 6

Reconstituted family

Answer 6

A step family in which one or both partners have children from a previous relationship

Question 7

Patriarchal family

Answer 7

Authority held by males

Question 8

Matriarchal/Matrifocal family

Answer 8

Authority held by females

Question 9

Symmetrical families

Answer 9

Authority and household tasks shared between male and female partners

Question 10

Lone parent family

Answer 10

Lone parent with dependant children, most commonly after divorce or separation (although may also arise from death of a partner or unwillingness to marry/cohabit)

Question 11

Same sex families

Answer 11

Same sex couple, with children

Question 12

Civil partnerships

Answer 12

The 2004 civil partnerships act gave same sex couples similar legal rights to married couples in respect of their pensions, inheritance, tenancies and property

Question 13

Single person household

Answer 13

An individual living alone

Question 14

Cohabitation

Answer 14

When a couple lives together but is not married

Question 15

Beanpole family

Answer 15

A family that is vertically extended but not horizontally extended e.g grandparents, parents and children, but not aunts, uncles or cousins