family types

• Define the nuclear family

  A pair of adults and their children
• Give an example of a Nuclear Family

  The Simpsons
• Define Lone Parent Families

  one parent lives alone with their children due to death, divorce, dissertation etc
• Define Co-parenting families

  Parents who bring up and socialise their children with the focus wholly on the upbringing of the child
• Give an example of Co-parenting families

  Teen parents or Divorced families
• Define Reconstituted families

  Two adults with children from previous relationships
• Give an example of Reconstituted families

  The royal tenenbaums
• Define a single person household

  A person living alone, separate from any part of a multi-person household
• Define singlehood

  The state of not being married or in a romantic relationship
• Define cohabitation

  A couple living in the same physical location e.g. testing before marriage or to save money
• Define living apart together

  Couples in committed relationships with one another without cohabiting
• Give an example of living apart together

  Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton
• Define Vertically extended family

  Three generations of parents and grandparents living together
• Give an example of a vertically extended family

  Charlie and the Chocolate factory
• Define a horizontally extended family

  A family where the parents’ brothers and sisters live with them
• Give an example of a horizontally extended family

  The Madrigals - encanto
• Define a modified extended family

  Children marrying out of a parental household but engage in activities together regularly 
• Define a beanpole family

  Multi-generational extended family with few siblings in each generation e.g. a family with a long, thin structure
• Define a sandwich generation

  Middle aged parents who care for both their elderly parents and their own children
• Give an example of a sandwich generation family

  Charlie and the Chocolate factory
• Define same sex families

  A family with parents of the same sex
• Give an example of a same sex family

  Carol and Susan (friends)
• Define an empty nest family

  A family transition were children have grown up and moved out of the parental home e.g. moving out for university
• Define Boomerang children

  A young adult who returns to live in their family home after living by themselves for a time e.g. due to financial difficulties