Family Terminology

Explain the meanings of the following terms:

1. Nuclear family
2. Extended family
3. Vertically extended family
4. Horizontally extended family
5. Geographically extended family
6. Kinship
7. Housewife
8. Breadwinner
9. Traditional family
10. The cereal packet image of the family
11. Affluence
12. Child centred family
13. The dark side of the family
14. Domestic violence
15. Child abuse
16. Divorce rate
17. Feminist
18. Household
19. Primary socialisation
20. Secondary socialisation
21. Conjugal roles
22. Joint conjugal roles
23. The privatised nuclear family
24. Segregated conjugal roles
25. Integrated roles
26. Family diversity
27. Dual worker family
28. Symmetrical family
29. Reconstituted families
30. Single parent family
31. Arranged marriage
32. Ethnic families
33. The social construction of childhood
34. Child centred society
35. Monogamy
36. Serial monogamy
37. Patriarchy
38. Matriarchy
39. Bigamy
40. Cohabitation