FAMILY STRUCTURES

STEP FAMILY/BELNDED FAMILY

• A step family is two familys united by marrige
• The couple might have one or more children with them
• One of the parents might need to move because of the others career
• The stepchildren will need to adjust to having a stepbrother or spetsister
• A movie that has a stepfamily in it is Blended

EXTENDED FAMILY

• Mutable generations of a family live together
• A Grandparent may live with the family
• A adult with a child may move back with their parents
• Child care is available
• Rolling Family - movie

NUCLEAR FAMILY

• They have both parents and a child
• It is a traditional family
• The norm for family living
• Usually only one parent earns money
• Duck Dynasty - T.V show

SINGLE PARENT FAMILY

• Children live with only one parent
• Sometimes only one parent have custody
• Sometimes both parents have custody
• Work must be adjusted to have a parent assume total carergiver role
• Terminator 2 - movie

CHILDLESS FAMILY/COUPLE

• Some couples choose not to have children
• They may feel not prepared to have children
• They don't want the responsibility
• They might not be able to have them
• Up - movie

ADOPTIVE FAMILY

• When a parent becomes the parent of another child
• They are not related to the child by blood
• This is very smiler to a nuclear family
• This requires paperwork
• Stuart little - movie

FOSTER FAMILY

• When a family takes care of a child for a time
• This dose not need paperwork
• Meet the Robinsons - Movie

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