Family Types - Consolidation

Nuclear family

Decreased because.... fewer marriages, secularisation, feminism, women's attitudes etc.

Extended family

Decreased because.... geographic mobility, social mobility, wealth, meritocracy, strengthening bond partners, immigration etc.

Lone parent family

Increased because.... secularisation, law, feminism, divorce, socially acceptable etc.

Same sex family

Increased because.... socially acceptable, law - Marriage & Civil Partnership Act 2014.

Reconstituted family

Increased because.... divorce, ethnic diversity, secularisation, less stigma etc.

Lone person family

Increased because.... feminism, secularisation, women's attitudes (wanting careers not children), widows etc.

Household (definition) - 'Person living alone or a group of people living together, may or may not be related.'

Family (connotations) - relationships, blood, relatives or non relatives, relations etc.

' Two married parents (male & female) with their children (usually 2).'

'A mother or father living without a partner, with their dependent children.'

'A family which extends beyond the nuclear family to include grandparents and other relatives.

'Homosexual couple living together with children.'

'One or both parents have children from a previous relationship but have combined to form a new family.

'One person, living alone.'