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
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