Family structures

A father or mother.

• Parents

• Ancestor

What is the legal term for the ceremony where two people become husband and wife?

• marriage

• adoption

• engagement

• divorce

What is the term for a member of your family?

• relative

• stranger

• friend

• sibling

What is the term for a person who inherits money or property from someone who has died?

• heir

• recipient

• inheritance

• legatee

All the people in a family or group who live together in a house

• dwelling

• domicile

• household

• residence

The family consists of 2 parents and their children.

• adoptive family

• blended family

• single parent family

• nuclear family

This family is where many relatives, like aunts, uncles,, grandparents all live together or very close together.

• extended family

• nuclear family

• a step-family

• a one-parent family

Family consisting of a father and a mother and the stepchildren of one of them (or both).

• A step-family

• a one-parent family

• nuclear family

• extended family

A family with only a mother or a father to look after the children.

• nuclear family

• extended family

• a one-parent family

• a step- family

Take someone else's child into your own family and make him/her legally your son or daughter.

• Adopt

• reject

• discard

• throwaway