Types of Families and the Family Life Cycle

What is a family?

• Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another and usually all live together

• a group consisting of friends and parents that have to live together

• a group consisting of parents and children living separately in different households.

consists of two parents and their children.

• extended family

• nuclear family

• blended family

• sibling family

Is a family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships.

• extended

• blended

• single-parent

Consists of one parent and their child/children.

• sibling

• family

• Single-parent

• nuclear

(a)   - extends beyond a nuclear and may include grandparents, aunts, uncles and any other relatives.

Which family type is when the married couple established their home but does not yet have children?

• Beginning Family

• Childbearing family

• Launching family

• aging family

A group of people related to one another by blood, marriage or adoption.

• Family
• Mom and dad
• Siblings and parents

A persons place in a group

• Position
• Role
• Brothers and sisters
• Leader

Extended Family

• Grandparents
• Cousins
• Generation
• Several generations of relatives

This stage of the family life cycle is when a couple decides to marry

• expanding
• beginning
• aging
• launching