Family Functions, Life-cycle, Types, & Dynamics

Which type of family is two married parents (mother & father) with biological children?

• Blended

• Bi-racial

• Nuclear

• Extended

Which family style is when 2 or 3 generations living under one roof?

• Extended

• Traditional

• Blended

• Adoptive

What is a family type that does not have children? It is just adults.

• Single Parent Family

• Child free family

• foster family

• grand parent family

Which family is one parent (mother or father) raising child or children due to death, divorce or abandonment?

• Blended Family

• Adoptive Family

• Bi-Racial family

• Single Parent Family

Which family type is when one or both parents have been married before bringing their children from the previous marriage into the family?

• Extended

• Gay/Lesbian

• Conditionally seperated

• Blended

Which family type is when a child that is temporarily placed with a family until the child’s “family problems” are settled?

• Blanded

• Foster

• Adoptive

• Extended

Which family type is when parents go through the courts to make children legally their own?

• Adoptive

• Foster

• Blended

• Extended

Which family type is when young adults graduating high school and college and choose to share a home with their parents after previously living on their own?

• Extended

• Boomerang

• Foster

• Co-Custody Family

Which family is having a biological mother from one racial group and a biological father from another?

• Bi-Racial

• Gay/Lesbian

• Boomerang

• Nuclear

Which family type is when a family member is separated from the rest of the family? This may be due to employment far away; military service; incarceration; hospitalization.

• Blended

• Grandparents as parents

• Boomerang

• conditionally seperated