Someone from your family
Flesh and blood
An older man whom you treat like a father
Father figure
To be born to parents who are not married
To be born out of wedlock
To look extremely similar to someone
To be the spitting image of
A way of taking care of a child that involves a parent being very closely involved with their child's life, especially their education, and trying to control it too much
Helicopter parenting
A mother who spends a lot of time taking her children to activities such as music classes, sports, etc. It is often used to refer to a type of middle-class mother
Soccer mom
If a quality, ability, disease, etc. runs in the family, many members of the family have it
Run in the family
Someone's father or someone's husband
Old man
A man's wife
Old lady
Someone who has a child or children but no husband, wife, or partner who lives with them
Single parent
A child who has no sisters or brothers
Only child
A family unit that includes grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, and uncles, etc. in addition to parents and children
Extended family
A family consisting of two parents and their children, but not including aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc
Nuclear family
A family in which the parents are two people of the same gender
Same-sex family
The joining of two adults via marriage, cohabitation or civil partnership, who have children from previous relationships
Reconstituted/blended family
Of, relating to, or involved with religion, or living and worshiping according to the beliefs of a particular religion
Religious family
