Families overview quiz - WJEC GCSE Sociology quiz

There is no difference

A household must always be a family

A family is related by blood, marriage or adoption; a household is people living together who need not be related

A family must include children

Extended family

Nuclear family

Beanpole family

Lone parent family

A step family formed when adults bring children from previous relationships

A family with grandparents living in

An unmarried couple with no children

A family with only one child

A family that grows its own food

A family with many children

A family headed by a same sex couple

A tall, thin family with several living generations but few members in each

Primary socialisation

Setting interest rates

Running the police

Making laws

As benefiting only men

As benefiting everyone by meeting society's needs

As benefiting capitalism only

As having no useful purpose

That it benefits women most

That it has no functions

That it benefits the capitalist system rather than everyone equally

That it should be abolished immediately

That it treats men and women equally

That it benefits children most

That it has only economic functions

That it benefits men more than women because women do most unpaid domestic work

Cohabitation has risen and marriage has fallen

Divorce has become impossible

Everyone now lives in extended families

Marriage has become compulsory

Divorce laws becoming harder

Divorce laws becoming easier, quicker and cheaper

More religious influence on society

Women becoming less independent

The roles of grandparents

The roles of teachers

The roles played by a couple, especially how they share housework, childcare and paid work

The roles of children

That men do two jobs

That children do housework and homework

That couples share everything equally

That women do paid work and still most of the housework and childcare

Childhood is now seen as a special, protected stage with longer time in education

Children now leave school earlier than ever

Children are treated exactly as they were 200 years ago

Childhood has become shorter over time

The nuclear family in the UK

Polygamy, where a person has more than one husband or wife at once

A flat-share of students

A beanpole family

That the family is in terminal decline

That the family never changes

That the family is becoming more diverse and adapting to a changing society

That only the nuclear family is acceptable