Is the typical British family two married parents with dad at work and mum at home with two children? No it isn’t Today mums and dads are at work, so little children are with nannies, grandparents, or at nurseries in the day. Many children are in one-parent families as their parents are divorced, so they are with one parent in the week and with the other one at the weekend. Other parents are unmarried or remarried to different people, so they are new stepfamilies, or even half- brothers and sister. There are lots of only children too, without brothers or sisters. There are also more and more multicultural families in the UK, where parents are from different countries, so their kids have two passports. Question 6: What is the traditional image of a British family with regard to parental roles? *