Families & Households - Defining The Family

Question 1

What is a household?

Answer 1

A person living alone or a group of people living together (e.g. sharing meals, bills, housework etc.) who may or may not be related to each other

Question 2

What is the family?

Answer 2

A married, civil-partnered or cohabiting couple with/without kids or a lone parent with at least one child who lives at the same address. The kids may be dependent or not dependent.

Question 3

What is the broader sense of the family?

Answer 3

A family tree

Question 4

What is the narrower sense of the family?

Answer 4

Parents living with their children (unit)

Question 5

What are the 4 different types of family?

Answer 5

Nuclear family
Reconstituted family
Single-parent family
Extended family

Question 6

What is the nuclear family?

Answer 6

2 parents with their biological kids living in 1 household

Question 7

What is the reconstituted family?

Answer 7

2 partners living in 1 household sharing parental duties for 1 or more children but only 1 is the biological parent

Question 8

What is the single parent family?

Answer 8

1 adult with 1 or more kids living in 1 household

Question 9

What is the extended family?

Answer 9

Relatives (e.g aunts/uncles/grandparents) residing permanently in the same household as those making up the nuclear family