Family Diversity Family diversity means that there are many different types of family in society today not

just nuclear, cereal packet families. Sociologists describe different forms of the family, some of the main ones are:

Nuclear Family ( Familia Nuclear)

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Nuclear family - this family consists of:

Parents Children

Extended Family (Familia extendida, incluye abuelos)

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Extended family - this family usually consists of:

Grandparents Parents Children

Reconstituted Family (hermanastros, madrastras, padrastros)

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Reconstituted - this type of family is more commonly kno n as a:

Step family (step mother > madrastra, step equivale a familia pero no por consanguinidad)

Sin le !arent Family (padres"madres solteros, monoparentales)

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Sin le parent ! this family consists of:

"ne parent #usually female$ %hildren

#ereal !ac$et Family (prototipo de familia ideal promovida por los

medios)
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Sociologists also sometimes talk about %the cereal pac$et family& & a certain type of nuclear & this refers to the image most people hold of the family. 't is also the picture of the family that the media tends to present, especially in adverts. (he cereal pac$et family comprises of:

Parents %hildren

(he oman is a house ife #ama de casa$ and full time mother and the man is the )bread inner #cabe*a de familia$) i.e. he is the one ho has to go to ork to earn money.

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's the cereal packet family an accurate #e+acto,preciso$ picture of the -typical. modern family/ (hink about: (he roles of men and omen in the home today ! are they like the cereal packet vie / 0hat other types of families are there apart from the cereal packet family/

Ethnic (inority Families

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South Asian Families People coming to live in 1ritain from other countries has helped create greater diversity in the family. (he increase in the number of South )sian families in 1ritain has contributed to an increase in the number of vertically extended families #this means that the family has three different a e enerations in it, e* * randparents, parents and childrens) West Indian families +est ,ndian households in 1ritain tend to have a higher number of lone parent families headed by the mother than other ethnic groups.

(he term for this is matriarchal (this means a female dominated family). 0est 'ndian lone parent families tend to have strong support net orks amongst their female relatives. 0e need to remember though that not all South Asian and 0est 'ndian families are like this, they also have diversity of family types. 't ould appear from the evidence presented that there is no one typical family type in 1ritain. 2ost sociologists believe that family types are becoming increasingly diverse. Family Diversity 3. Gap fill & 4se the gap fill to test your understanding of family diversity
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many different types of family

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