Family Unit

This family type is the core family plus at least one other relative living in the same house

• adoptive family

• foster family

• blended family

• extended family

This family type is one in which the parents have children that are not thier birth children; live with a family for an extended period placed through a government agency.

• Foster

• Adoptive

• Nuclear

• Single-Parent

This family type consists of a husband, a wife, and one or more biological children

• Blended

• Adoptive

• Extended

• Nuclear

This family type has only one parent with one or more children

• Single-parent family

• only child family

• nuclear family

• blended family

This family type is created when a single parent marries another person.

• extended

• blended

• nuclear

• single-parent

In this stage of the family life cycle, the oldest child is between the ages 2 ½ and 6

• beginning stage

• child bearing stage

• family with preschoolers stage

• launching center stage

Which of the following occurs in the launching center stage of the family life cycle?

• child/children leave home

• child/children are born

• child/children return home to live with their parents

• child/children live alone

This family type consists of parents and their legally adopted children

• foster

• nuclear

• blended

• adoptive

In this family form, an individual has his/her own space but must pay all the bills by himself/herself.

• POSSLQ

• divorced adults

• grown children moving back home

• living alone

This family form occurs when people of the opposite sex live together.

• single parent families

• POSSLQ

• couples having children later in life

• blended family