Families

• Cohabitation

  To live together in a sexual relationship without being married or in a civil partnership
• Responsibilities

  Actions/duties you are expected to carry out
• Roles

  Position, status or function of a person in society, as well as the characteristics and social behaviour expected of them
• Family structures

  • Nuclear family
  • Extended family
  • Reconstituted family
  • Single parent family
  • Childless family
• Matriarchal

  A family or society controlled by women
• Patriarchal

  A family or society controlled by men
• Roles within a family

  1. Caring for children

  2. Caring for other family members

  3. Maintaining the family home

  4. Earning money to support the family
• In the past, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism held traditional views on the roles of women and men in family life
• Both women and men aim to provide love, comfort, protection, and support for each other and for any children
• Both men and women are important role models for children