Family Types

A group of people related to each other by birth, marriage, or adoption

• Unit

• Family

• Cooperative

• Peer Group

A pattern of interaction with one or more persons over time.

• Relationship

• Generation

• Role

• Family

A married man and women and their biological children.

• Foster family

• Extended Family

• Step Family

• Nuclear Family

All the people who are born and live in about the same time span.

• Generation

• Family

• Role

• Relationship

The makeup of a family

• Roll

• Generation

• Relationship

• Family Type

Cares for children who are not related to other family members.

• Step family

• Extended family

• Foster

• Nuclear family

One adult who is raising one or more children.

• Childless Family

• Adoptive Family

• Guardian Family

• Single Parent Family

A single parent marries.

• Nuclear family

• Step Family

• Foster Family

• Childless Family

Several generations of relatives

• Step family

• Single parent family

• Adoptive family

• Extended family

A couple or single parent decides to raise another person’s child legally as their own.

• Adoptive family

• Guardian family

• Foster family

• Extended family