Modern Family Types
Nuclear family
formal way to say "partner" or "boyfriend/girlfriend"
significant other
Use this idiom to describe a child who looks identical to their parent!
The spitting image of someone
When someone refuses to speak with you because they are angry
Silent treatment
The person who earns the primary income
breadwinner
only a mother or father is raising the offsprings
Single-parent family
to ask someone to marry you!
To pop the question
What saying means that a son behaves or looks exactly like his father?
Like father, like son
Peopl/families who not work well together and often in conflict
dysfunctional
to successfully deal with a difficult situation
To cope with
a family formed when divorced parents remarry and bring their children from previous relationships
Patchwork family
to live under the same roof (one word)
cohabit
describe the person who makes the dominant decisions in the household
To wear the trousers in the family
Manipulating someone into doubting their own sanity, memory
Gaslighting
To decide if, when and how many children a couple wants
family planning
Grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles with kids, who all live under the same roof
Extended family
to get married (idiom)
Tie the knot
A favorite person in the family, someone they are incredibly proud of
The apple of my eye
They have drifted apart, are no longer close, and don't speak to each other
Estranged
a place for elderly people to live at
Retirement home
a group of biologically unrelated people who support each other and sometimes live together by choice
Chosen family
two people who are absolutely perfect each other! (idiom)
a match made in heaven
Children often inherit the same characteristics/behaviors as their parents
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
When a child is forced to act as an adult
Parentification
a child from parents who were never married (phrase)
Born out of wedlock