Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit NÂș 8 v.7
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Nuclear Family
- nuclear family / family unit|n| the nuclear family or elementary family is a term used to define a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children.
- "Having an intact nuclear family does not guarantee that a child will turn out well."
- "The family structure also changed from a large, multi-generation family to a nuclear family."
- "This might be a nuclear family, consisting of a couple living alone with or without children."
- "I've seen how drug use is directly responsible for the erosion of the family unit."
- single parent family / one parent family |n| family in wich there is only one parent.
- "Single-parent families are much more common these days."
- "Many children are now born into or raised in one-parent families."
- joint family / blended family / assembled family |n| a family in which parents and their children with their families live together and are considered as a simple unit.
- multi-ethnic family |n| family whose parents come from different ethnic backgrounds.
- "In our class we have children of all different religious and ethnic backgrounds."
Extended Family
- extended family |n| a family group which includes relatives such as uncles, aunts, and grandparents, as well as parents, children, and brothers and sisters.
- "My extended family usually gets together at holidays."
- "The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family."
- "It was difficult to maintain contact with members of his extended family."
- immediate family |n| means: spouse or spouse equivalent, parent, child, brother, sister, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother or stepsister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter- in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparent or grandchild.
- family in-law |adj| family related by marriage.
- step family |n| family where different generations lived together.
Adoptive Family
- adoptive family |n| a family whose members are not related by blood.
- "They help find emotionally damaged children placements with adoptive families."
- foster family |n| the family of a fosterling.
- "They are found in birth, adoptive, blended, and foster families, and in kinship care."
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