What are the family types?

• A family is a group of people who either live together, share resources, or reproduce
• The nuclear family is a family consisting of parents and their two codependent children, who live together in a single household.
• Another name for the nuclear family is the 'Cereal Packet Family'
• The different family types are:

  • The Reconstituted family
  • The Extended family
  • The Nuclear family
  • The Lone Parent family
  • The Beanpole family
  • The Same Sex family
• Extended families include grandparents, uncles, aunties, cousins etc. Living under one roof
• Reconstituted families consist of step parents and stepchildren living together as one unit
• Same sex families are made up of same gender couples raising children together
• Lone parent families have only one parent responsible for bringing up a child
• An 'Empty Nest Family' is a couple who had children but now they have left the family home
• A beanpole family is a multi-generational family that is described as being 'long and thin'
• A household consists of one person who lives alone or a group of people living at the same address