extended households
Big family residences
Extended households are domestic units that include relatives beyond the nuclear family—grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, or other kin living under one roof or functioning as a single economic unit.
The arrangement may arise from cultural tradition, economic necessity, or caregiving needs: Three generations share the house in an extended household.
Distinguished from nuclear households of just parents and children.
- grandparentsAncestors once removed
- joint familyRelatives cohabiting across generations
- living togetherSharing a dwelling
- relativesThose connected by blood
- cousinsRelatives through shared grandparents
cohabitation · residence · family compound · in-law suite · spare bedroom · domesticity · multigenerational · aunts · filial piety · uncles · interdependence · elder care · communal living · support · nieces · family ties · familial obligations · cost-sharing
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