WHAT IS A FAMILY?

• What is a family?
• A mother, a father and a child?
• Well, you do need a mother and father to have the child, but is that the only kind of family?
• What about a family which has one parent and a child, or children?
• What about children who live with their grandparents?
• What about children who are adopted into a family?  They still have a mother and a father, but the family started in a different way?
• What about children who live sometimes with mum and sometimes with dad?
• What about children who live with mum and her female partner, or dad and his male partner?
• What about children who live with aunties, uncles or older brothers and sisters?
• What about children who live with foster parents?
• What about stepbrothers and stepsisters and stepparents?
• Some children have 2 mothers and 2 fathers and 8 grandparents and goodness knows how many cousins!
• These are all families because people,, who all need food, warmth, clothing and shelter, live together and try to love and look after each other.
• Who is in your family?

Here you will find more Conversation Questions about Family, just if you want to continue questioning yourself about some others family subjects.