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Family and its Types

June 12, 2020

Family Introduction

Family and its Types
Family and its Types

Family is the smallest social group whose members are tied with each other on the basis of consanguinity, affinity, or co-residents. It usually means a group of related people living together under the same roof. But it also includes a person's ancestors and other relatives. The family has served as the primary institution for begetting children, raising them, and support them financially, and emotionally. There are various types of families. On the basis of those who live in a family, it can be classified into three categories: nuclear family, extended family, and an alternative family.

Nuclear Family

The nuclear family is the one, which consists of a husband, wife, and children, This kind of family is the most usual and traditional one. In this type of family, parents take responsibility for the basic necessities of their children. And the children, in turn, are responsible for their parents and have to provide emotional support to their parents. As children grow older, they are given different responsibilities. The size of the nuclear family is comparatively smaller in comparison to an extended family.

Extended Family

The family in which the married children live with their parents is called extended family. Such families include grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Therefore, it is very large in size as compared to the nuclear family. In extended families, the parents alone do not have to raise their children. Other members of the family uncles, aunts, grandparents contribute equally to bring up the children. The children become responsible not only towards their parents but also towards other members of the family. The alternative kind of family is different from both the nuclear and extended family.

Alternative Family

An alternative family is the one in which the parents don't necessarily get married and bear children. This kind of family is not based on the traditional norms, and values of a family. There are varieties of alternative families: unmarried couples living together, married couples not bearing children, unmarried couples adopting some children, unmarried mothers raising their children with their grandparents, etc. This kind of family rarely exists in traditional societies because living without getting married, and bearing children out of marital relationships was supposed to have been offensive in many traditional societies.

Conclusion:

All of the families are the same in the sense that they are bound together in a bond, which unfits them. The members in each family type have certain love, roles, and, responsibilities towards others but they have some differences too. In the first type of family, the family members are less but they have unlimited responsibilities towards each other. In the second type of family, there is a large number of family members but the responsibility is shared among family members. Unlike in nuclear, and extended family, the alternative family is based not on the basis of martial, and biological traits but on the common residence.

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