METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES OF STUDYING THE PHENOMENON OF EXTENDED FAMILIES IN PSYCHOLOGY

A large family is a family with three or more children, including adopted children under the age of eighteen. The types of large families are families in which the parents consciously decided to have many children, families in which the parents did not seek to have many children, families that have many children as a result of the formation of two single-parent families and families with many children as a result of disadvantage.