Family Structures and Legacies

A family where one or more of the children has been adopted.

• Foster family

• Nuclear family

• Extended family

• Adoptive family

Two families brought together due to divorce, separation, or remarriage.

• Step family

• Extended family

• Adoptive family

• Single parent family

A group of people related to one another by blood, marriage, or adoption.

• Family

• Mom and dad

• Relatives

• Friends

This can be either a father or mother who is singly responsible for raising a

child.

• Step family

• Extended family

• Adoptive family

• Single parent family

A couple or single parent decides to raise another person’s child as their

own.

• Single parent family

• Adoptive family

• Nuclear family

• Extended family