Flashcards on Family Structures and Social Concepts
Family Structures and Social Concepts: A Student Guide
Tap to flip · Swipe to navigate
Family and Relationships
14 cards
Card 1
Question: What is a family (according to the provided content)?
Answer: A group of people who are usually blood relatives and live together; they offer protection and education to their children and relatives or to people
Card 2
Question: What is a nuclear family?
Answer: A family consisting of parents and their children who usually live together.
Card 3
Question: What is an extended family?
Answer: A family that includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who usually don't live together and meet at special occasions like birthdays, weddings
Card 4
Question: Who are in-laws?
Answer: The family you gain by marriage (father, mother, brother, sister of your spouse) who are not your blood relatives.
Card 5
Question: What is a stepfamily?
Answer: A family formed when a parent remarries after divorce; the new spouse and their children become step-relatives.
Card 6
Question: What are godparents (as described)?
Answer: People who promised to look after you if you became an orphan when you were born.
Card 7
Question: What does 'half brother' or 'half sister' mean?
Answer: Siblings who share only one parent in common.
Card 8
Question: What is cohabitation?
Answer: Living with a partner and having a normal shared life without being married; partners are not husband and wife.
Card 9
Question: What is the generation gap?
Answer: A difference in opinions and values (often around 20 years) between people of different generations living together, causing misunderstandings or argu
Card 10
Question: How is marriage defined in this content?
Answer: Like cohabitation but official: a couple has a wedding and are legally husband and wife.