A family usually consists of a mother, father and children who live together in one house. A functioning family should provide protection and security to all its members. All family members have duties and responsibilities; parents should teach their kids, children should go to school and learn, help their parents in chore. A functioning family can be the secret of happiness for its members. Parents and children should talk and get on well with each other, they should do their responsibilities and help the others.
Marriage is a lifelong connection between two persons (bride and groom) who want to connect their life. Marriages can be monogamous and polygamous - husband has more wives. Wedding is a formal act, it is held in a town hall or in a church. The engaged couple change their wedding rings and promise to each other to live together in good and bad and in illness too.
When one of the parents dies, children stay with a single parent. A woman who loses her spouse is a widow and a man is widower. When one of the divorced parents gets married again the partner becomes a step-parent. When a couple lives together, but they don't get married is called cohabitation.
Structure of a family
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Types of family: NUCLEAR FAMILY (2 generations) – parents + kid(s) |
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EXTENDED FAMILY ( 3 generations) |
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SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY |
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RECONSTITUTED / STEP FAMILY |
Parents bring up or raise children - this is their upbringing - , look after them, educate them or give them a good education. They praise them and occasionally tell them off or scold them. Children usually take after their parents, grow up and grow out of their clothes, seek new friends and slowly break away from the family. Young people get on well witch each other, fall in love with somebody, go out with somebody, move in with somebody and get married.
household = is a group of people who have a common residence (it is not necessarily any family or kinship relationship between them)
kinship = is a related concept that means connection between people that are "blood relationships"
Problems in the family
Marital problems: row, quarrelling, fighting, divorce, separation, adultery, cheating on someone, being jealous, secret or extramarital affair
Economic problems: not being able to make ends meet, unequal division of labour, second shift
Problems with kids: premature babies, hyperactive, dyslexic children, sibling rivalry, generation gap , playing truant, addictions
Other problems: poor health, mental and psychological problems, illness, death
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my mother's brother is my ..................... my sister's daughter is my ..................... my father's sister is my ..................... my father's father is my ..................... my brother's son is my ..................... |
Answer key can be found under the glossary.
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functioning – működő duty – kötelesség responsibility – felelősség, kötelesség lifelong – élethosszig tartó, életre szóló |
monogamy – egynejűség to get on well/badly with sy – jól/rosszul jön ki valakivel row/quarrel – veszekedés |
Answer key: uncle, niece, aunt, grandfather, daughter-in-law, father-in-law, nephew
