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Families - family types - Coggle Diagram
Families - family types
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Kinship - refers to blood relatives or people connected because they are marital partners. People can enter kinship through adoption and fostering
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Lone parent family - lone parent with dependent children, most commonly after divorce or separation (although could be due to death, unwillingness to marry, etc)
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LAT's (living apart together) - when a couple is in a serious relationship but do not live together (eg long distance)
Cohabitation - when a couple lives together, but are not married
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Extended family - any group of kin (people related by blood, marriage or adoption) extended beyond the nuclear family (vertically - grandparents, horizontally - aunts/uncles)
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Reconstituted family - a step family in which one or both partners have children from a previous relationship
Empty shell marriage - a marriage in name only, where a couple continues to live under the same roof but as separate individuals. May occur when divorce is difficult for legal, religious or financial reasons or for the benefit of children
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Nuclear - a two generation family of a man and a woman and their dependent children (own or adopted)
Same sex families - Same sex couple, with children
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Civil partnerships - the 2004 Civil Partnerships Act gave same sex couple similar legal rights to married couples in respect of their pensions, inheritance, tenancies and property
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Beanpole family - a family that is vertically extended but not horizontally extended (grandparents, parents, children as opposed to aunts, uncles and cousins)
Modified extended family - an extended family living far apart but keeping in touch by phone, letters, emails and frequent visits