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The Extended Family

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An extended family is a household including at least one parent and child plus other relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins.

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A grandparent who moves in to help raise grandchildren converts a nuclear household into an extended one.

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Extended and nuclear describe household composition, not how close or distant relationships within either one feel.