types of family

• family

  people living together are related by blood/marriage
• household

  a group of people who share a common residence
• cohabitation 


  living as a partnership without marriage
• primary relationship


  close long lasting and special ties between people
• monogamy

  one partner
• serial monogamy


  remarriage of divorcees
• polygamy

  a system of marriage involving two or more partners
• polygyny

  one man married to several women
• polyandry

  one woman married to several men (nyinba in nepal)
• endogamy


  marriage within the same tribe, ethnic group or social class
• exogamy

  marriage outside the tribe, ethnic group or social class
• nuclear family

  -2 generations

  -geographically mobile

  -isolated

  -independent family unit
• extended family

  -3+ generations

  -geographically static

  -live within 1 mile of other kin

  -dependent
• modified extended family


  -nuclear family with extended family traits

  -keep in contact via technology or car

  -telephonic/motorised families
• kippers

  Kids In Parents Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings
• single parent families

  bringing up children without a partner ususally a mother
• reconstituted family


  blended families, divorced adults forming new families
• empty shell (marriage)

  love between couple has gone but stay together for children/financial reasons
• empty nest family

  children have left the family home and only the couple remain
• boomerang family

  children leave the family home and return at a later stage-