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• extended family


  a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one household.
• Lone parent family


  Family consisting of one parent living with one or more of their children.
• Reconstituted family


  sometimes called a step-family, this involves the break-up of one family and its reassembly as a new family through marriage or cohabitation
• Shared care families/dual parenting


  When children are brought up with the love and guidance of both parents following a separation
• Same sex families


  Same sex couple with children
• Single person household


  An individual living alone
• monogamy


  Marriage to only one person at a time
• Polyandry


  One female, several males.
• Polygamy


  marriage to several people at the same time
• serial monogamy


  A form of marriage in which a person may have several spouses in his or her lifetime, but only one spouse at a time.
• Beanpole family


  multiple generations but only a few members in each one
• nuclear family


  Mother, father and children living as a unit
• how the family unit has changed


  - grandparents areliving longer

  -high level of divorce

  -same sex families

  -more cohabitation with or without kids

  adults may choose not to marry or have kids.
• Murdock's definition of family


  A social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction. Two adults with socially approved relationship with one or more children