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  • A child who has no sisters or brothers
    Only child
  • Someone who has a child or children but no husband, wife, or partner who lives with them
    Single parent
  • 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 family consisting of two parents and their children, but not including aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc
    Nuclear family
  • Of, relating to, or involved with religion, or living and worshiping according to the beliefs of a particular religion
    Religious family
  • Someone's father or someone's husband
    Old man
  • A man's wife
    Old lady
  • Enter a train/bus/plane/boat/bike
    Get on
  • Someone from your family
    Flesh and blood
  • Successfully communicate an idea
    Get across
  • a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that gives them the same rights as people who are married
    Civil partnership
  • 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
  • The joining of two adults via marriage, cohabitation or civil partnership, who have children from previous relationships
    Reconstituted/blended family
  • A family in which the parents are two people of the same gender
    Same-sex family
  • Recover from a sickness or difficult situation
    Get over
  • Descend from a train/bus/plane/boat/bike
    Get off
  • Enter a car, swimming pool or container
    Get in
  • A family unit that includes grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, and uncles, etc. in addition to parents and children
    Extended family
  • An older man whom you treat like a father
    Father figure
  • If a quality, ability, disease, etc. runs in the family, many members of the family have it
    Run in the family
  • Exit from a car, swimming pool or container
    Get out
  • To be born to parents who are not married
    To be born out of wedlock
  • Do something and not be caught or punished
    Get away with
  • To look extremely similar to someone
    To be the spitting image of