For Church record-keeping purposes, a household is a grouping of membership records for individual Church members living at the same address (for example: a father, mother, and children; a husband and wife with no children or no children living at home; a single parent with no children living at home; and so on). Though not the typical situation, there can be multiple households living at the same address. Individuals assigned to a household do not need to be related.
The head of household is the person to whom all other household membership records are tied. Usually, the member husband or father is the head of household. In certain cases the head of household may also be another member parent, a single adult member, or a member child whose parents are not members. The membership record numbers (MRNs) of all other household members are grouped to the MRN of the head of household.
A nonmember spouse cannot be recorded as a head of household or a household member even if he or she lives at the same address as the member spouse.
An adult child who lives with a parent who is a head of household, or another adult living at the same address, may be designated as a separate head of household. This will cause them to appear as a separate household on unit reports, allowing them to receive personalized attention from priesthood quorums or separate assignments for ministering. These household decisions should be made by the bishop in consultation with the family members involved.