1. THE SINGLE PARENT FAMILY: family in which the mother alone assumes from the start raising their children / as. Generally, it is women who most often assume this role, as the man away and denies paternity for various reasons
2. THE FAMILY OF SEPARATED PARENTS: Family where parents are divorced. They refuse to live together; they are not a couple but must continue its role of parent to the children however distant they are located.
3. FAMILIES COMPOSED OF PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX: Two single people with the need to raise a child.
4. NUCLEAR OR ELEMENTARY FAMILY: the foundation of society, the basic family, consisting of husband (father), wife (mothers) and children. Children may be the biological offspring of the couple or adopted by the family members.
5. THE EXTENDED OR BLOOD FAMILY: It consists of more than one nuclear unit as always coexist under one roof. Parents, children, grandparents, uncles, aunts, nephews, cousins and others; eg three-generation family includes parents, their married children or singles, political children and grandchildren.
6. SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES: That family that constitutes one of the parents and their children. This can have various origins, either because parents have separated and the children left in the care of one parent, usually the mother, exceptionally, are cases where it is the man who performs this function; finally it gives rise to a single parent the death of one spouse.
7. ADOPTIVE FAMILY: That which receives a child by adoption process.
8. RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES: composed of a parent with children who meets a single person without children. From these comes the figure of stepparents.
9. UNATTACHED FAMILY: A group of people with no blood ties, they share a home and, as a survival strategy expenses.
10. FAMILIES FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES BOTH ETHNICITY AND RELIGION: For example: A Jewish member with a Catholic member, or from a Western culture with Oriental culture, etc.
