Families

Household: This is a group of people who share a living space together who are not necessarily tied by blood or kin.

Nuclear: Aka the 'cereal package' family is seen to be a socially accepted morm. This will consist of a mother a father and children all living together.

Extended: A family consisting of parents, children living with aunts, uncles and even grandparents.

Re- constituted: This is step families. This is when parents re-marry another partner and the child are brought into the new family.

Lone: Families in which there is just one parent either the mother or father living at home looking after the children.