Types of family

How many types of family can we find in a home?

María paula suarez wrote:How many types of family can we find in a home?

​We have stepfamilies; single-parent families; families headed by two unmarried partners, either of the opposite sex or the same sex; nuclear familias; households that include one or more family members from a generation; adoptive families in total about 6 different types of families.

María paula suarez wrote:How many types of family can we find in a home?

There are many types of family in the whole world, but we could generally arrange them on this classification:

1. Nuclear family: This is the "normal" family, where 2 parents (mother and father) raise their kids with both in charge of maintaining a familiar connection.

[list=2][*]Monoparental family: There is just one parent (either man or woman) in charge of raising the children.[/list]
[list=3][*]Family with no kids: As its name says, the couple has decided to have no kids and enjoy a life without them.[/list]
[list=4][*]Adoptive family: This category includes also Foster families, which have kids that are not biologically related to their parents, but they can´t be with their true parents, so instead other people offer to give them a better life. [/list]
[list=5][*]Extense Family: It consists on a large group of relatives in charge for kid raising. [/list]
[list=6][*] Homoparental family: Consists on "gay couple" which can be married and have adopted kids, or kids obtained by other methods. [/list]
[list=7][*] Separated family: A family in which mother and father divide the custody of the children as they are no longer together. [/list]