Family Structures & Life Cycle

What stage of the family life cycle consists of only a married couple before children?

• Retirement

• Beginning

• Parenting

• None of the above

Stage begins when new members are added to the family.

• Parenting

• Beginning

• Launching

• Retirement

Stage involves retirement from a job.

• Launching

• Beginning

• Retirement

• None of the above

Parents begin to focus on being a couple once more. "Empty nest"

• Launching

• Middle Years

• Beginning

• Parenting

In this stage, teens and young adults begin to leave the family home.

• Launching

• Parenting

• Beginning

• Retirement

Family structure consisting of a married couple and one or more children

• Single

• Nuclear

• Blended

• None of the above

Family structure with a married couple, their children and their children from previous marriages

• Single

• Nuclear

• Blended

• Multigenerational

Family structure that consists of families who care for children when their parents are unable to care for them

• Foster

• Blended

• Adoptive

• Single

Nuclear, single-parent, blended, childless, or foster families, plus other relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who reside together

• Blended

• Multigenerational

• Foster

• None of the above

Married couple without children

• Nuclear

• Foster

• Childless

• Single person