extended household
Big family unit
An extended household includes family members beyond the nuclear unit of parents and children—typically grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins living under one roof or functioning as a single domestic unit.
The arrangement may reflect cultural tradition, economic necessity, or caregiving needs: Three generations shared the extended household.
Distinguished from a nuclear household of just parents and children.
- support bubbleApproved close contacts during lockdown
- cohabitationDwelling together unmarried
- communalShared by a community
- relativesThose connected by blood
- foster familyTemporary child-raising arrangement
shared · intergenerational · ancestral homes · spare room · grandparents · uncles · filial piety · cousins · aunts · family · in-laws · chosen family · nieces · blood relatives · domestic · family compound · togetherness · shared expenses
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