Types of family and Unions

This family type consists of two parents and children

• Nuclear family

• Extended-family

• Grandparent-family

• Single Parent family

2. This kind of family consists of one parent raising one or more children on his own

• Nuclear family

• Single parent family

• Extended family

• Nuclear family

3. This family includes three generations living together and working toward common goals, such as raising the children and keeping up with the household duties.

• Nuclear family

• Extended family

• Single-parent family

• Reconstructed family

While most people think of family as including children, there are couples who either cannot or choose not to have children, they are called...

• Nuclear family

• Stepfamily

• Childless Family

• Extended family

Over half of all marriages end in divorce, and many of these individuals choose to get remarried. This creates the ___________ which involves two separate families merging into one new unit.

• Grandparent family

• single-parent family

• Blended family / Stepfamily

• Nuclear family

A child who has no sisters or brothers.

• Oldest child

• Only child

• Little child

• Adopted child

A nuclear family MUST consist of a mother, father and one child.

• true

• false

18. Susan is 26 years old. She is married, has two children and a well-paying job. Her husband died in a motor vehicle accident. Soon after his death, Susan and her children went to live with her parents, her brother, and his family. The situation has changed Susan's family structure from

• Extended to nuclear

• Nuclear to extended

• Nuclear to sibling household

• Single parent to sibling household

17. The family produces children and maintains the population levels. To which function of the family does the statement above refer?

• Economic

• Procreation

• Socialization

• Emotional

7. The makeup of a family is Called ____________.

• Foster family

• Foster family

• Nuclear family

• Family type