Families

What is a household?

One individual or group of people living together at one address and share a living space

What is a family?

An intimate domestic group of people related to one another by bonds of blood, sexual mating or legal ties

What is a nuclear family?

Two generations, parents living with their dependant children

What is a traditional extended family?

Three or more generations of the same family living together/close by with frequent contact between grandparents,cousins, etc

What is attenuated family?

Nuclear families living apart from extended family, but keep in regular contact

What is a lone-parent family?

Single parent and their dependant children

What is a reconsituted family?

New stepfamilies created when parts of two previous families are brought together

What is value consensus?

A set of shared values and norms

What is a subsystem?

A basic building block of society