1. Family
• Warm-up: Page W3
• Please create a definition of family. What is
your family? What does a family do? Include
all of that in your definition.

2. Family
• What did you put as your definition?
• 1. a. a basic social unit consisting of parents and their
children, considered as a group, whether dwelling
together or not: the traditional family.
• b. a social unit consisting of one or more adults
together with the children they care for: a single-
parent family.
• 2. the children of one person or one couple collectively
• 3. the spouse and children of one person
• 4. any group of persons closely related by blood, as
parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins
• 5. all those persons considered as descendants of a
common progenitor.

3. Family Types- Singletons
• 1 in 24 adults remain
single throughout
their life
• 66% are women
• Refers to people who
have never married,
or people who live
alone after a spouse
dies.

4. Family Types- POSSLQ’s
• AKA Cohabitation
• Person’s of the opposite
sex sharing living
quarters WITHOUT THE
BENEFIT OF MARRIAGE.
• Cohabitators have a
60% divorce rate.

5. Family Types- Couples with no children
• Married couple with no
children (no adopted,
biological, step)
• Cost to raise a child to 18
= 200,000
• 1.86 kids per family with
children in 2010, 3.6 in
1957
• Could be because
– Lifestyle
– Work commitment
– Fertility

6. Family Types- Nuclear Traditional
• Two opposite sex
parents with biological
children to both. No
step.
• Average age for 1st
marriage
– 28.2 Men
– 26.1 Women

7. Divorced Adults/Single Parents
• Divorced adult= a couple that has
• 60% of divorces have children
decided to end their marriage
in the family
• Single-parent family= a parent who
• 1 in 4 children live with one cares for without the assistance of
parent another person in the home.
• Single parent families has
doubled in the past 20 years
• About 50% of the
children in divorced
families report having
not seen their father in
the last year and only
1 of 6 see him once a
week.

8. Grandparents as Caregivers
• Refers to grandparent
taking over the
responsibilities of
raising their
grandchildren.
• Grandparents
returning to the role
of parent

9. Boomerang Families
• Grown children moving
back in with their
parents OR living longer
with their parents

10. Grandparents Living with Family
• Refers to grandparents
that move in with their
grown adult children
and their families.
• More instances of this
happening, making
adult children
“sandwich generations”

11. Blended Families
• A composite family
structure by the
convergence of
two previously
unrelated nuclear
families, each of
which have lost a
mother or father
through
death/divorce
• Step siblings
• Many different
types