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13 Cards in this Set
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Lone Parent Family |
A parent that lives alone with their related children. Most commonly caused by divorce/separation, but also through death and lack of desire to marry or cohabit (live with partner in a sexual relationship |
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Matriarchal Family |
Authority held by females |
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Patriarchal Family |
Authority held by males |
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Single-person household |
An individual living alone |
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Reconstituted family/ step parent/ blended family |
One, or both partners have been married previously and their children from those previous relationships now live together as one, new family |
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Cereal packet family |
A stereotypical image of a family; usually of a happy heterosexual, married couple with their (happy) children. Often used in advertising |
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Gay or lesbian family |
A same sex couple living with their children |
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Bean-pole family |
A long, thin multi-generational, extended family. It has a few aunts, uncles and cousins, reflecting fewer children being born into each generation at the same time as people living longer |
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Nuclear family |
Two generations: parents and their genetically related children living together |
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Classic extended family |
All kin, including the nuclear family and beyond (grandparents, aunts etc.) sharing the same household, or living near each other |
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Modified extended family |
All kin, including the nuclear family and beyond, living apart, but keeping close contact via phone, letters, emails and social networking |
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Neo-conventional family |
Families that do not have the traditional 'father, mother and child' roles. Often, households where all the adults/parents go out to work and the household tasks are shared more equally |
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Symmetrical families |
Authority and household tasks are shared equally between males and females |
