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Check Your Understanding of Families and Diversity

Due NEXT lesson

Word Bank:

extended families matriarchal media step family wage earner

grandparents, parents and children

housewife and mother

many different types of family

mother, father and children

single parent families

Task: Write your answers in the gaps.

Most sociologists believe that Britain has family diversity , this means

. Families found in Britain today include, nuclear, meaning

; extended, meaning ;

single parent; reconstituted, meaning and cereal packet family, this is how the

show the family, they show the woman as the and the man as

the .

Ethnic minorities also create diversity in family types in Britain. South Asian families have a higher

number of than other groups. West Indians have a higher number of

than other groups. These families tend to be female dominated, the

word for this is .

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Teacher's Key:

Most sociologists believe that Britain has family diversity, this means many different types of

family. Families found in Britain today include, nuclear, meaning mother, father and children;

extended, meaning grandparents, parents and children; single parent; reconstituted, meaning step

family and cereal packet family, this is how the media show the family, they show the woman as the

housewife and mother and the man as the wage earner.

Ethnic minorities also create diversity in family types in Britain. South Asian families have a higher

number of extended families than other groups. West Indians have a higher number of single parent

families than other groups. These families tend to be female dominated, the word for this is

matriarchal.

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