Family

***We went over many topics and definitions this week and the main words were:

--> Family: Any group of two or more personswho are bound together over time by ties of  blood or mutual consent, birth, and/or adoption.

--> Adoptive Family: A family in which the parents are legal rather than biological parents of the children, but who bring the children up as though they were  their biological parents.

--> Blended Family: Families with parents who divoreced their spose and remarried, forming a family thst includes children from one or both previose marriages.

--> Common Law:Denoting a relationship between cohabiting partners; recognized as the marriage but not brought about by a civil church ceremony.

--> Extended Families: Families that consists of parents, children, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and other blood relations, living together or not.

--> Family Form: The number of adults, the nature of the relationship between the adults, and the number of generations.

--> Foster Family: A family that takes temporary care of children until they can return to their  biological family.

--> Stepparents: The parents of children in blended families; a mother's opr father's later spose.

--> Nuclear Families: A family that consists of two parents and one or more children living together.

--> Spouse: Husband or wife; partner