Chapter 3 Test

Who is the parent that heads the household and has legal responsibility for caregiving?

• Custodial Parent

• Noncustodial Parent

• Foster Family

• Multicultural Family

A person who is legally appointed by the court to take responsibility for a child in the event of the birth parents' death or extended absence.

• Adoption

• Nonverbal Communication

• Guardian

• Foster Family

An adult provides a temporary home for a child who cannot live with his or her birth parents.

• Adoption

• Nuclear Family

• Foster Family

• Joint Custody

When a child from one pair of parents legally becomes the child of another parent(s).

• Custodial Parent

• Joint Custody

• Marriage

• Adoption

The shared legal right to provide care for and make decisions about a child’s life.

• Noncustodial Parent

• Joint Custody

• Foster Family

• Nuclear Family

A father, a mother, and their biological child or children live together. What type of family is this?

• Foster Family

• Multicultural Family

• Nuclear Family

• Marriage

A parent who lives separately from his or her children.

• Noncustodial Parent

• Adoption

• Foster Family

• Multicultural Family

Sending and receiving messages without using words.

• Noncustodial Parent

• Joint Custody

• Guardian

• Nonverbal Communication

A legal contract, ideally an emotional and social union, between two partners.

• Marriage

• Multicultural Family

• Adoption

• Guardian

A family with members from two or more cultural groups.

• Foster Family

• Guardian

• Multicultural Family

• Noncustodial Parent