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| a family in which single parents marry and raise the children from each of their previous relationships together |
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| the forming of a family alliance outside marriage or through a private ceremony not legally recognized as marriage |
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| a group of unrelated, monogamous couples living together and collectively rearing their children; considered a nontraditional family |
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| a family in which both partners work but have jobs in different cities; on parent raises the children in the "home" city while the second partner lives in the other city and commutes home for weekends or less frequently, depending on the distance |
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| emerging family patterns that did not exist a few years earlier, such as "loose shirt" families, in which parents work from home via the computer and internet |
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| material or information that families exchange with their environment |
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| two or more individual who share a residence or live near one another; possess some common emotional bond; engage in interrelated social positions, roles, and tasks; and share a sense of affection and belonging |
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| the acquired knowledge that family members use to interpret their experiences and to generate behaviors that influence family structure and function |
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| those behaviors or activities by family members that maintain the family and meet family needs, individual member needs, and society's views of family |
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| how well the family functions together as a unit |
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| a diagram that illustrates the pattern of interactions and interdependence among family members |
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| comprises the characteristics of individuals who make up a family unit: age, gender, and number |
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| the greater concentration of energy that exists within the family than between the family and its external environment |
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| families who have had formal training and are licensed to accept non-related children into their homes to raise temporarily while the families of origin resolve their problems |
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| a loose-knit organization of individuals between the ages of 14 and 24 years that has a name, is usually territorial or claims a certain territory as under its exclusive influence, and is involved in criminal acts |
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| several adults who share a common household, consider that all are married to one another, and share everything, including sex and child rearing |
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| nuclear families not related by birth or marriage but bound by a common set of values, such as a religious system, who share good, services, and child-rearing responsibilities |
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| a family who finds itself without permanent shelter due to a lack of marketable skills, negative economic changes, or chronic mental health problems |
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| playing several roles at the same time, such as when one woman is a wife, mother, grand mother, aunt, teacher, volunteer, author, neighbor, and friend |
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| several nuclear families who live in the same household, or near one another, and share goods and services |
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| multigenerational families |
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| several generations within one family, such as the aged mother of the husband, wife, teenage children, and one teen's infant |
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| a family pattern that has not traditionally been socially acceptable, such as a single-parent household headed by a woman |
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| a mother, father, and one or more biologic or adopted children living together, separate from others |
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| two or more people interacting in a continuing manner within the greater environment |
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| the assigned or assumed parts that members play during day-to-day family living; they are bestowed and defined by the family |
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| one adult living alone either by choice to remain single or because of separation from spouse and/or children because of divorce, death, or distance from children |
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| a mother or father (but not both) and their children |
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| the family structures that are most familiar and that are most readily accepted by society |
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| a family that emerges form lifestyle, is voluntary, and is independent of necessary biologic or kin connections |
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