Types of Family Structures

Group of relatives such as aunts, uncles, and grandparents living with parents and children.

• Nuclear family
• Foster family
• Blended family
• Extended family

Children are taken into families for short periods of time because their parents are unable to care for them.

• Single-parent family
• Extended family
• Foster family
• Blended family

Two separate families joined through marriage, also known as step family.

• Nuclear family
• Extended family
• Blended family
• Foster family

One parent and their child or children.

• Foster family
• Single-parent family
• Extended family
• Blended family

Two parents and one or more children living together, also known as the traditional family.

• Nuclear family
• Blended family
• Foster family
• Extended family

Which is the final stage of family development

• Child Bearing Stage

• Launching Stage

• Child rearing

• Retirement

Which is the stage that has a married couple, no children, and an established home?

• Beginning Stage

• Launching Stage

• Empty Nest

• Retirement

Which is the stage where children exit from the home

• Beginning Stage

• Launching Stage

• Child Bearing Stage

• Retirement

Which is the stage where children enter school

• Child rearing

• Launching Stage

• Middle Years Stage

• Aging

Which is the stage where new members are added to the family

• Beginning Stage

• Child Bearing Stage

• Launching Stage

• Retirement