Family Types

Question 1

Adoptive

Answer 1

Process whereby a person assumes the parenting of a child from that child’s biological or legal parents.

Question 2

Adoptive - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 2

Advantage:
- has people to care for child
Disadvantage:
- may never know real parents

Question 3

Foster

Answer 3

A family that provides custody or guardianship for children whose parents are dead or unable to look after them.

Question 4

Foster - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 4

Advantage:
- has people to care for child
Disadvantages:
- may never know real parents
- only temporary

Question 5

Childless

Answer 5

Having no children. Childlessness may have personal, social, and/or political significance.

Question 6

Childless - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 6

Advantages:
- Less economic struggles
Disadvantages:
- Inheritance restrictions

Question 7

Blended

Answer 7

A family consisting of a couple, the children they have had together, and their children from previous relationships.

Question 8

Nuclear

Answer 8

A couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic single unit.

Question 9

Nuclear - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 9

Advantages:
- Decisions can be made easily and quickly
Disadvantages:
- Isolated from extended family members

Question 10

Blended - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 10

Advantages:
- Extra support for parents and children
Disadvantages:
- Sibling rivalry
- Clashing parenting styles

Question 11

Same Sex Couples

Answer 11

Persons of the same sex living together in the same household and reporting a de facto relationship.

Question 12

Same Sex Couples - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 12

Advantages:
- More open to talking about emotionally difficult topics.
Disadvantages:
- May face discrimination

Question 13

Communal

Answer 13

Groups of people who live together and follow a set of rules and guidelines for living daily life, possibly due to specific religious beliefs or economic necessity.

Question 14

Communal - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 14

Advantages:
- Better financially
Disadvantages:
- Lack of privacy

Question 15

De Facto

Answer 15

A couple in a relationship who may be of the same or opposite sex, that live together on a genuine domestic basis.

Question 16

De Facto - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 16

Advantages:
- Similar benefits to that of a married couple
Disadvantages:
- Difficult in terms of division of assests.

Question 17

Extended

Answer 17

A family which extends beyond the nuclear family to include grandparents and other relatives.

Question 18

Extended - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 18

Advantages:
- More support
Disadvantages:
- Power struggles and conflict

Question 19

Sole Parent

Answer 19

Families which children under age 18 headed by a parent who is widowed or divorced and not married, or by a parent who has never married.

Question 20

Sole Parent - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 20

Advantages:
- Freedom to make decisions
Disadvantages:
- Less money
- Spend less quality time.

Question 21

Kinship

Answer 21

Identifies an individual’s relationship with another individual and/ or group.

Question 22

Kinship - Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 22

Advantages:
- Provides stability and security
Disadvantages:
- Might be hard to watch someone else raise your child.

Question 23

FIFO

Answer 23

At least one member of the family is frequently absent from the home as they travel via plane to a remote workplace for an extended amount of time.