Child development vocab

the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group

• society

• family

• culture

• childless family

a family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships

• parenting

• foster family

• nuclear family

• blended family

include romantic relationships and ties to friends and family members, as well as our need to feel that we belong to a social group

• physiological needs

• parenting

• love and acceptance needs

• blended family

a family that includes a couple and their dependent children regarded as a basic social unit

• esteem needs

• nuclear family

• childless family

• adoptive family

a family or adult who takes care of a child who is not his or her biological child

• adoptive family

• co-parenting

• family

• foster family

a group of people related to one another by blood, marriage, or strong bond

• family

• single parent

• safety needs

• values

a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life

• culture

• society

• values

• prosocial behaviors

the quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a particular group

• esteem needs

• self-actualization needs

• universality

• society

a family who has welcomed a child to another into their family and legally adopted that child as their own

• foster family

• co-parenting

• safety needs

• adoptive family

behaviors through which parties benefit from each other

• physiological needs

• support systems

• prosocial behaviors

• extended family