Kinds of Family

What is a family?

• A family is a group of people who are related to each other by MARRIAGE, BIRTH and ADOPTION.

• A family is the group of people you just met in school.

This is a union of a couple so that they will be a family.

• Marriage

• Birth

It is an act of raising a child from a different family.

• Adoption

• Marriage

When a child is born and raised in the same family, this is called a family related by ________?

• Adoption

• Birth

All families have the same family members.

• Yes

• No

This is a kind of family that has a mother, father and child or children.

• Two-parent family

• Extended family

There are families in which the grandparents are taking care of the children. What kind of family is this?

• One-parent Family

• Grandparent Family

This is a kind of family in which the husband and wife don't have children.

• Childless Family

• Grandparent Family

What do you call the kind of family where the children are living EITHER with the mother OR father?

• One-parent Family

• Childless Family

This is a family that includes the grandparents, uncles, aunties and cousins.

• Two-parent Family

• Extended Family