A type of reconstituted or step family where parents with children from previously existing relationship form new relationships come together as one new, blended family.
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Extended Family
Family beyond the traditional nuclear family, incorporating aunts, uncles, and grandparents. In the traditional extended family, members live in the same household, in more modern extended families.
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Cereal Packet Family
A critical term for the traditional nuclear family consisting of heterosexual parents and two children which was presented as the norm on cereal packets (and in the media more generally) in the 1950s.
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Negotiated Family
Vary according to the wishes and expectations of their members, who decided what is best for them by discussion. Negotiated families are more equal than traditional nuclear families, but more unstable. This is the typical type of family in postmodern soci
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Matrifocal Household
A family structure in which mothers are the heads of household and fathers have less power and control in family life and the allocation of resources.
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Birth Rate
The number of babies born per thousand of the population per year.
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Death Rate
The number of deaths per thousand members of a population per year.
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Civil Partnership
The legally or formally recognised union of a man and a woman (or in some countries two people of the same sex) in a committed relationship.
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Cohabitation
Two people living together in the same household in an emotionally intimate, committed relationship without being officially married.
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Family beyond the traditional nuclear family, incorporating aunts, uncles, and grandparents. In the traditional extended family, members live in the same household, in more modern extended families.
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Extended Family
Card 3
Front
A critical term for the traditional nuclear family consisting of heterosexual parents and two children which was presented as the norm on cereal packets (and in the media more generally) in the 1950s.
Back
Card 4
Front
Vary according to the wishes and expectations of their members, who decided what is best for them by discussion. Negotiated families are more equal than traditional nuclear families, but more unstable. This is the typical type of family in postmodern soci
Back
Card 5
Front
A family structure in which mothers are the heads of household and fathers have less power and control in family life and the allocation of resources.
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