a single-family (home, house, or dwelling) means that the building is a

structure maintained and used as a single dwelling unit. Even though a

dwelling unit shares one or more walls with another dwelling unit, it is a
single family residence if it has direct access to a street or thoroughfare and
does not share heating facilities, hot water equipment, nor any other
essential facility or service with any other dwelling unit.[2][In some
jurisdictions allowances are made for basement suites or mother-in-law suites
without changing the description from "single family". It does exclude,
however, any short-term accommodation (hotel, motels, inns), large-scale
rental accommodation (rooming or boarding houses, apartments), or
condominia.

A nuclear family, elementary family, or normal family, is a family group

consisting of two parents and their children (one or more).[1] It is in contrast
to a single-parent family, to the larger extended family, and to a family with
more than two parents. Nuclear families typically center on a married couple;
[1] the nuclear family may have any number of children. There are
differences in definition among observers; some definitions allow only
biological children that are full-blood siblings,[2] but others allow for a
stepparent and any mix of dependent children including stepchildren and
adopted children.[3][4]

An extended family is a family that extends beyond the nuclear family,

consisting of parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, all living nearby or in the
same household. An example is a married couple that lives with either the
husband or the wife's parents. The family changes from immediate household
to extended household. [1] In some circumstances, the extended family
comes to live either with or in place of a member of the immediate family.
These families include, in one household, near relatives in addition to an
immediate family. An example would be an elderly parent who moves in with
his or her children due to old age. This places large demands on the
caregivers, particularly on the female relatives who choose to perform these
duties for their extended family. In modern Western cultures dominated by
immediate family constructs, the term has come to be used generically to
refer to grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, whether they live together
within the same household or not.[2] However, it may also refer to a family
unit in which several generations live together within a single household. In
some cultures, the term is used synonymously with consanguineous family.