Stages
Challenges
Hot Shot
Vocabulary
Family Structures
100

During this Family Life Cycle Stage, people are meeting and beginning to create a life together.

What is the Beginning Stage?

100
One challenge families face during the launching stage
What is : parents hate to see children move out? parents worry about children on their own? sometimes children don't want to move out?
100

A family that temporarily takes care of children in their home.

What is: a Foster Family?

100

Brothers and sisters.

What are siblings?

100

A man or a woman raising a child or children.

What is a single parent family?

200
During this Family Life Cycle Stage, the couple is no longer working
What is the Retirement Stage?
200
One challenge in the Child-bearing Stage of the Family Life Cycle
What is: Only having one income while mother has baby? They need more room? There are more expenses?
200

Eye color, height, freckles, curly hair. 

What is something you can inherit from a family member?

200

A home where children have left to be on their own. 

What is the Empty Nest?

200
Consists of a mother, father, and children
What is a nuclear family?
300

During this Family Life Cycle Stage, children are no longer at home and parents are looking forward to retirement

What is the Middle Years stage?

300

One challenge in the retirement stage. 

What is: boredom, loneliness, health issues?

300

All people go through every stage of the Family Life Cycle at the same time. 

What is : False?

300

Customs passed from one generation to another.

What are traditions?

300
Parents go through a legal process to make children who are not biologically linked to them part of their family.
What is an Adoptive Family?
400
Sending kids away from home to live on their own is this Family Life Cycle Stage
What is the Launching Family?
400

One event that affects the order in which families go through the family life cycle.

What is: divorce? death of spouse? can't have children?

400

The number of years between siblings.

What is the Age Span?

400

The competition for the love and attention of parents.

What is: Sibling Rivalry?

400
Includes relatives other than parents and children
What is an extended family?
500
Kids are in school and learning to be independent during this stage of the Family Life Cycle
What is the Parenting Stage?
500

Income earner, mother, father, sister, brother, baby sitter, friend, basketball player.

What are Roles in a family?

500

When you have confidence in yourself and your abilities.

What is : Self-Esteem?

500

The process families go through as they  grow and change.

What is: Family Life Cycle?

500
Consists of a husband and wife, and at least one child from a previous relationship.
What is a blended family?
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