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Family Vocab
Family Vocab
Family- Group of people who are related by marriage or adoption and who live together and
share economic resources at one time
14. dysfunctional family- A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and
often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly
15. foster family- A family that provides custody or guardianship for children whose parents are
dead or unable to look after them.
16. Single parent household family
17. adoptive family- An adoptive family is a family that contains at least one adopted child and
at least one adoptive parent.
18. marriage
19. divorce
20. Kinship- Nuclear and Extended; Network of people who are related by marriage, birth, or
adoption
21. extended family- 2 or more generations of a family sharing the same residence.