All types of families

Adoptive families are families with a child or children who have been adopted.

Step families consist of a child or children, a biological parent, and a step parent or cohabiting parent who has assumed a parental role.

In foster families, parents undertake to care for children over a longer or shorter period, depending on the circumstances of the children.

A family where a man or a woman lives with his/her child or children is called a single-parent family. Sometimes this family form is temporary.