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My Family as a Primary Group

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My Family as a Primary Group
INTRODUCTION

On this assignment will be dealing with families, it will describing the two types of family that are found within families.

A family is a group of people who share a close relationship ,a unit typically(or traditionally ) composed of mated couple and their dependent children in co-residence .Families create generations -each of which gain in maturity and self sufficiency such as to create and provide for the subsequent generations ,and there are for different types of family namely, nuclear family ,single parent family ,extended family and childless family ,but we will be focusing on nuclear and extended families.(www.family.com)

Nuclear family is a group that consist of only a father , mother , and their children ,who share the living quarters. Nuclear families can be of any size, as long as there are only children and two parents.(www. nuclear family .com)

Extended family is an immediate family members living together with extra nuclear members such as grandparents ,aunts ,uncles ,cousins ,nieces and nephews. The term extended family has several distinct meanings. First, it is used synonymously with consanguineous family or joint family .Second ,in societies dominated by the conjugal family or nuclear family ,it is used to refer to kindred who does not belong to the conjugal family . Often there could be many generations living under the same roof ,depending on the circumstances.(www. extended family .com )

Nuclear family

As it is stated before that nuclear family consist of only father , mother and their children, who share living quarters. Nuclear family can be of any size , as long as there are only children and two parents.

Advantages of Nuclear family

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