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Our Relatives Your Language Your Language Your Language: The Family

This document provides definitions and examples of different types of family relationships. It lists common familial relationships like parents, siblings, children, grandparents, and spouses. It also defines extended family to include relatives through marriage like in-laws, step-relatives, and godparents. Finally, it describes different types of families such as nuclear, single-parent, immediate, extended, close-knit, and dysfunctional.

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Our Relatives Your Language Your Language Your Language: The Family

This document provides definitions and examples of different types of family relationships. It lists common familial relationships like parents, siblings, children, grandparents, and spouses. It also defines extended family to include relatives through marriage like in-laws, step-relatives, and godparents. Finally, it describes different types of families such as nuclear, single-parent, immediate, extended, close-knit, and dysfunctional.

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THE FAMILY

Our Relatives

Your Language Your Language Your Language

male
female
Great grandparents great grandmother great grandfather
Grandparents grandmother grandfather
Parents mother father
Siblings sister brother
Children daughter son
Grandchildren granddaughter grandson
Great grandchildren great granddaughter great grandson
Spouses wife husband
aunt uncle
niece nephew
cousin cousin
Half-siblings half sister half brother
Godparents godmother godfather
Godchildren goddaughter godson
Stepfamily
Stepparents stepmother stepfather
stepsister stepbrother
Family in Law [the in-laws (colloquial)]
Parents in law mother in law father in law
daughter in law son in law
sister in law brother in law

Typesoffamily
Nuclearfamily=mother,fatherandchildren:"ThetraditionalBritishfamilyunitisanuclearfamily."
Singleparent/oneparentfamily=afamilythatonlyhasoneparent(becausetheparentsaredivorced,orbecauseoneoftheparentshasdied):"Therearemoreandmore
singleparentfamiliesintheUK."
Immediatefamily=yourclosestrelatives:"Onlyimmediatefamilymembersattendedthefuneral."
Extendedfamily=yourentirefamily:"Theweddinginvitationsweresenttotheentireextendedfamily."
Closeknitfamily=afamilywherethemembershavecloserelationshipswitheachother:"Theyareacloseknitfamily."
Dysfunctionalfamily=afamilywherethemembershaveseriousproblemswitheachother:"Hecomesfromaratherdysfunctionalfamily."
Bloodrelative=arelativeconnectedtoyouby"blood"ratherthanthroughmarriage:"She'snotabloodrelative,butwe'restillveryclose."

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