Family Types

Question 1

Define co parenting

Answer 1

When adults chose to have a child without taking on a long term partner

Question 2

Define reconstituted/blended families

Answer 2

involves two adult parents but with children from more than one relationship (step families)

Question 3

Define sandwich families

Answer 3

People who are responsible for their own children and elderly parents at the same time

Question 4

Define beanpole families

Answer 4

Long and thin family trees with fewer people in each generation

Question 5

Define cohabitation

Answer 5

Two people in a relationship and living together who are unmarried

Question 6

Define same sex families

Answer 6

Same sex families with children

Question 7

Define child freedom

Answer 7

Childlessness as an active choice

Question 8

Define LATs (living apart together)

Answer 8

couples choosing to live in separate households, although they are in a relationship

Question 9

Define single parents by choice

Answer 9

Two or more people parenting a child, but they have never been in a relationship