What are your family living arrangements?

[Lyric]

Just curious.

EDIT: Went ahead and deleted the stepfamily option, so I could add in single parents.

[Lyric]

1. I voted "Some combination of the above"

We're a lesbian couple with a child who also share a house with another small family--people who we met on DU years and years ago, and who are our best friends.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Other: I live alone in a one-bedroom apartment.

Happily.

[applegrove]

59. Me too.

[rucky]

3. We have a friend of my wife living with us right now.

Leaving an abusive relationship and noplace else to go.

Otherwise a nuclear family.

[Lyric]

7. Thank you. Seriously.

I've been that woman. I wish more people like you were out there.

:hug:

[NightWatcher]

4. You looking for a sofa to crash on?

Kidding, we've got myself, wife, baby, dog, cat, fish.

[frazzled]

5. You left out a really obvious one: single parent living with children

I bet there's a ton of people out there in that living situation.

[w8liftinglady]

8. that would be me you're talking about :)

[Lyric]

11. Yeah, I ran out of spaces.

And I felt like it would be even more of an insult to leave out "homeless" as an option.

:(

[leftstreet]

15. Several of your options could qualify as 'homeless'

Lateral family and friend moves for economic reasons are often technically 'homeless'

[Lyric]

18. Technically, yes.

But that's not quite the same as someone like bobbolink, who was literally living in her car. I don't know how many others we might have who fit that description, and I wanted to include them.

[demmiblue]

Yep... that category is too big to be left out (numbers-wise). n/t

[w8liftinglady]

6. some combination

single mom with an adult kid and a teenager- part-time cohabitant of my partner's home

[leftstreet]

9. Why are you making a distinction between married/unmarried famlies?

Just curious

[Lyric]

14. I wanted GLBT couples who function as a married couple (but aren't actually married)

to have a place. Kind of like me and my long-time partner. We function like any other married couple, except that we are denied that status. It's only fair to recognize that denial.

[leftstreet]

17. Ah

Didn't think of that

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Was this poll written in 1953?

nt

[Lyric]

16. No. I just ran out of spaces.

I wish there was a way to add a few more.

[JuniperLea]

34. LOL!

G'night John Boy, g'night Grandpa, g'night Mary Ellen... hee hee...

Actually, I'd rather see ALL married or cohabitating couples termed 'nuclear family' before dicing up the various combinations. It's time to come together and be human and stop dividing ourselves.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Me,, husband and son...who is in college and comes home every week or two

to visit. G-d only knows what this country will be like when he's finished with college. :scared: I hope he's able to afford a life after college or he will have to leave the country with us and he doesn't want to. Our door will always be open to him though. :loveya:

edited to add:

Our sweet little dog, Isabelle!

[hobbit709]

13. Home with just me and my two remaining dogs.

[orpupilofnature57]

19. I live with my wife who was my girlfriend for the first 19yr.s and my wife

the last 17yr.s we've lived together since 1977 and we have no children ,we've always rented .

[Raine]

20. My brother and I moved in with our father when he was ill after he died

we continue living in the family home.

[Coyote_Bandit]

21. Nearly 27% of households in the US

are made up of one person living alone. I'd be among that group - assuming you do not count the fukids.

[KamaAina]

22. No room for the single guy?

Now I have yet another reason to find Mrs. K -- wherever she may be. :Shrug:

[Lyric]

27. Awww.

You can just make the "Other" category especially awesome.

:loveya:

[Arkansas Granny]

23. Other. I live alone in a small, 2 br house.

[Auntie Bush]

52. I live alone in a 6 bedroom house that needs repairs that I can't afford

So, I'll have to eventually sell it and move in with my daughter. I'll have to use the funds from the sale to build a new wing on her small 2 bedroom house. I'm going to miss all my beautiful space.

[greymattermom]

24. usually nuclear and boring

but we have a busload of idealistic 20 somethings staying with us. Watch ABC news with Dianne Sawyer tomorrow night to see them. They're walking across the whole country picking up trash for environmental awareness. pickupamerica.org

[Wait Wut]

25. Other

Me, my husband, a dog and three cats.

The kids are all in California along with the gkids.

[notadmblnd]

26. I share m home with my son and a sister who is unemployed

She would be homeless if I didn't take care of her.

[saras]

28. umm... a lot of poorer people's living arrangements are not LEGAL to talk about...

The place I live has a "only two unrelated adults in a residence" law. I'd estimate that 5%-10% of the county violates it.

I've seen, relatively recently...

groups of homeless youth living in someone's garage.
more illegal garage/residences than I can count.
people with homeless camps in their backyards, and the homeless as "tenants".
Cars and RVs tucked into obscure corners, rural and industrial.
Homemade "houses", ranging from cardboard boxes to giant treehouses made of pallets.
Hippie communes.
Redneck "extended family/friend" communes - they don't call them communes, of course.
Year-round campers with expensive camping gear.
"Servants' quarters"
People living in nonresidential office space.
People living in industrial warehouses/lofts.
People living in their storage unit.
People living in abandoned houses and other buildings.
People making shelters out of unused shipping containers. One guy got busted recently for filling a shipping container with illegal apartments.

and many more...

[NMMNG]

29. Our option isn't up there

Married lesbians.

[JuniperLea]

31. I'd call that a standard nuclear family...

Very normal where I come from.

[NMMNG]

40. Unfortunately the poll isn't worded that way

The "nuclear family" option mentions mother and father. I'm being nit-picky but that's what happens when we're bashed over the head constantly with the "gay people don't count as families because they're not a mommy and a daddy" stuff.

[NMMNG]

41. Unfortunately the poll isn't worded that way

The "nuclear family" option mentions mother and father. I'm being nit-picky but that's what happens when we're bashed over the head constantly with the "gay people don't count as families because they're not a mommy and a daddy" stuff.

[JuniperLea]

43. I worked for a gay couple for a long time...

In their home, with a lot of gay people coming and going all the time... we all became good friends; sometimes more like family. Shoot... I did their laundry sometimes... folded underwear, made dinner, did shopping. We were very family-like. Mommy, Daddy, Hubby, Wifey... they were just words... they were used for male and female alike. It was very common to walk into a room of gay men and say, hello ladies! They loved it... totally loved it. Likewise they loved it when I told them how handsome they looked... go figure.

Maybe Long Beach CA is just more accepting... sometimes I just don't get it. I'm sorry. I think of two people who love each other and live their lives together as the start of a nuclear family.

Gay people are people... I can't get past the people part... there's really no need.

[mike_c]

37. agree with JuniperLea....

Traditional marriage between two people. Not for me, mind you, but I won't hold that against you. :rofl:

[JuniperLea]

44. Been there, done that...

Did the time, got the divorce.

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Just me and my husband,

Kids are all grown and gone.

[xmas74]

32. Single parent

with child living and splitting bills with other family members.

[Marrah_G]

33. Single parent- going it alone.

Again.........sigh.

[Tippy]

35. 3 grown children living with me and hubby

Two sons one has two little boys daughter the other is single no children... recently our daughter losh her husband she and their daughter are living here.. And we have two other grandaughters who are here every other week end..house full...

[mike_c]

36. live with my partner, (separate) kids are all grown....

Couple of grandparents shacking up!

[krispos42]

38. I and my son live with my parents.

3 generations under one roof.

[Speck Tater]

39. Live alone. Wife passed. Kids grown and living all over the world. nt

[TorchTheWitch]

42. where is the "single adult living alone" option??? n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

55. +10

[cordelia]

45. Just me. nt

[RebelOne]

46. Single and living alone with 2 dogs. n/t

[Odin2005]

47. I guess us bachelors that live alone don't exist.

:eyes:

[undeterred]

48. Option for homeless people but not single people?!

[scarletwoman]

49. Other. Just me and my dog. Kids grown and living elsewhere. nt

[trueblue2007]

50. JUST HUSBAND AND WIFE .... AND OUR CAT CHILDREN

[mrmpa]

51. I answered other........

because I'm an adult who has her mother living with me. The one choice of adult living with parents/children, seems to indicate to me, an adult living in their parents home. For me it's a parent living in my home.

[supernova]

53. Unmarried hetero couple

We are cohabiting right now, late 40s, no kids in the house, he had two grown daughters and one grandkid.

We will marry in the next year or so.

[Liberal_in_LA]

54. big category left off - single adult

[ThatsMyBarack]

56. I live on the 2nd floor

Of a 2-flat. My mom lives on the 1st.

[REP]

57. DINK renting one apartment while house is being remodeled

[LadyInAZ]

58. I share with

mother, mother husband, son and myself... limited income total... mother and husband are both of 60(ss income)... I'm in my 40's (white collar and out of work) and son is 21(working barely makes ends meet)... we do struggle... we shuffle bills montly... rent is paid... but it takes a major chunk of the total income... very hard making ends meet... hardly surviving...

[tammywammy]

60. Single, own a home. n/t