Family issues 2

Explain the following words.

1. absent father
2. abuse
3. adopt children
4. adoption law
5. adultery
6. affinity
7. ageing population
8. arranged marriage
9. average number of children
10. bring up
11. child care
12. child custody
13. children’s rights
14. conjugal family
15. consanguineal family
16. co-residence
17. custodial parent
18. desertion
19. divorce
20. engagement
21. experimentation
22. extended family
23. family unit
24. fertility
25. gay household
26. guardianship
27. half-brother
28. heterosexual
29. high divorce rate
30. homophobia
31. incestuous marriage
32. infant
33. in-laws
34. jointly
35. jointly
36. low income
37. marriage
38. matrilocal
39. matrimony
40. nuclear family
41. property
42. rear
43. registered partnership
44. rent
45. separated woman
46. separation
47. single parent family
48. stepbrother
49. stepfamily
50. stereotype
51. to break up
52. wellbeing
53. widow