Types of Family

This family type consists of two parents and children.

• Nuclear family

• Extended-family

• Grandparent-family

This kind of family consists of one parent raising one or more children on his own.

• Nuclear family

• Single parent family

• Extended family

This family includes many relatives living together and working toward common goals, such as raising the children and keeping up with the household duties.

• Nuclear family

• Extended family

• Single-parent family

While most people think of family as including children, there are couples who either cannot or choose not to have children, they are called...

• Nuclear family

• Stepfamily

• Childless family

Over half of all marriages end in divorce, and many of these individuals choose to get remarried. This creates the ___________ which involves two separate families merging into one new unit.

• Single parent family

• Blended family / Stepfamily

• Grandparent family

Many grandparents today are raising their grandchildren for a variety of reasons. One in fourteen children is raised by his grandparents, and the parents are not present in the child's life. This kind of family is called:

• Two-income family

• Single family

• Grandparent family

One or two parents with one or more adoptive children (can have biological children too)

• Nuclear family

• Extended family

• Adoptive family

Temporary placement of children in a home of adults who are not related.

• Adoptive family

• Foster family

• Blended family

A child who has no sisters or brothers.

• Only child

• Little child

• Oldest child

One of two children who are born to the same mother at the same time

• Only child

• Oldest child

• Twin