2.1- family diversity

• what is a family?

  a group of people related to one another by blood or marriage
• what is the nuclear family?

  heterosexual parents and dependant children
• what is a reconstituted family?

  adults have children from previous relationships e.g matt damon
• what is a cohabiting family?

  couple that aren't married who live together. could be with/without children
• what is a beanpole family?

  few children who live together/close together with up to 4 generations
• what is a vertically extended family?

  families with three or more generations who live together or very close to each other
• what is a modified extended family?

  keep contact and ties but don't live near each other at all
• what is a horizontally extended family?

  two generations who live together or very close to each other
• what is polygamy?

  marriage to more than one partner at a time
• what is polyandry?

  women who has several husbands
• what is polygyny?

  a form of marriage in which a man has multiple wives.
• what is the one child policy in china?

  only one child is given free healthcare and education to try and slow population growth. any more than one can be fined etc
• what do the rapports argue?

  family diversity is found among different ethnic groups in britain
• asian household have 21% extended families, 1 in 5 live in extended families.
• 6% of asian families are lone parent families. 1 in 20 will be LPF
• asian people are more likely to be married
• black households have 8% extended families. less than 1 in 10 are extended.
• 19% of black families are lone parent families. 1 in 5 families will be LPF.
• black individuals are less likely to be married