Families have a great-great future
Twenty years ago, the typical extended family was “wide”. It usually consisted of two or three generations, with many children in each “nuclear family”. People had lots of aunts and uncles but often didn’t know their grandparents. However, according to a new study by the British research group Mintel, the family is changing shape. The family groups of the future will be “long and thin», with three or four small generations.
Here are some of their predictions:
1 Most children will know their great-grandparents (and even great-great-grandparents) because people are living longer.
2 Very few children will have brothers or sisters, and it will be common to be an only child. As a result, future generations will not have many cousins either.
3 Many children will grow up isolated from other children and young adults. This will make them more selfish and introverted.
4 More couples will divorce and re-marry, some more than once. They may have children with their new partners; so many children will have a stepmother or stepfather and half-brothers or sisters.
5 There will be many “boomerang children”. These are children who leave home to get married, but then divorce and return to live with their parents.
6 There will be more single-parent families.
7 Because houses are now so expensive, different generations may decide to live together, so parents, grandparents, and adult children may co-own their houses, and many couples will have to live with their in-laws.
| Vocabulary learning |
What do we call these people?
1) your mother’s father;
2) your father’s sister;
3) your father’s brother’s son;
4) your sister’s daughter;
5) your mother’s second husband (who is not your father);
6) your father’s grandmother;
7) your son’s wife;
8) your daughter’s husband;
9) your daughter’s daughter;
10) your sister’s husband;
11) half-brother/half-sister.
Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below.
Stepchildren, brother, name, younger, close, get married, cousins, single, stepfather, distant, ex-husbands
My ... is Tom Smiles. I’m the eldest of all the children. My second ... is Jack. The youngest is Michael. My ... sister is two years younger than me. Some time ago she got engaged to Mr. Brown. They are going to ... next month. I have many relatives. My grandparents are dead. But I have a number of ... and … relatives: two uncles, four aunts and about a dozen cousins. One of my ... has lost her husband and now she is a widow. An uncle of mine has been ... for many years, but he married recently. He is very kind to his ... and treats them as a real father would do. They love and respect their ... . My second aunt has been married three times. She gets on well with her three …
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3. Match the right description with appropriate type of family:
| Types of Families | Description |
| 1 single parent | husband, wife and children with other relatives |
| 2 nuclear | one parent raising children |
| 3 extended | when two people re-marry, each with children from previous relationships |
| 4 modified-extended | husband, wife and children without no other relatives |
| 5 reconstituted or blended | a group of relatives who do not live together but keep in regular contact |
Enter the correct word to build expressions related to family relationships.
1. Your …..- brother or sister has only one of the same parents as you.
2. Your family circle are your close ……..
3. If you are an ….. child, you have no sisters or brothers.
4. ……… families where the mother or father is bringing up the children on his/her own.
5. The children of your uncles and aunts are your ……….
6. A family ……… is a drawing that shows the relationships between the different members of a family.
7. Your grandmother’s and grandfather’s parents are your …………………...
8. Someone’s second husband will also refer to his wife’s children as their …………..
9. When two people (a man and a woman) are married they are …………….
10. The best man at a …………… ceremony is the male friend or relative of the bridegroom.
11. Your sister-…………. is the sister of your wife or husband.
12. A couple is always quarrelling have decided ……………..
| Vocabulary practice |
Multiple-choice quiz
Choose the correct answer to each question.
1. What is a family?
(a) a group of people linked by blood
(b) a group of people linked by blood, marriage or adoption
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(c) a group of people linked by marriage
2. Which one of the following would describe the modified extended family in the
21st century?
(a) parents and dependent children living together
(b) aunts, uncles and grandparents living in a household with adults and dependеnt children
(c) adults and dependent children maintaining close links with other relatives who may not be living under the same roof
3. What is cohabitation?
(a) traditional families
(b) couples living together in a sexual relationship without being married
(c) couples living together before getting married
4. Which four of the following characteristics would describe a traditional family?
(a) with children
(b) equal pay for both partners
(c) a geterosexual couple
(d) a male breadwinner
(e) married
5. What does patriarchal mean?
(a) male dominated
(b) capitalist
(c) feminist
6. What is the modified extended family?
(a) a group of extended kin who live under the same roof
(b) a group of relatives who don’t live together but keep in regular contact
(c) parents and dependent children living in one household
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