Group 1
Family consisting of a father, a mother, and their biological child or children who live together
Nuclear Family
State funded or private agency licensed by the state to handle adoptions.
Adoption Agency
person often chosen by a child biological parents to take responsibility for the child in the event of the birthparents death or extended absence.
Guardian
discipline technique in which parents threaten children with being unloved or suggest some form of parent child separation.
Families headed by one adult
Single Parent Family
adoption in which a person such as a lawyer or physician works out the detail between the birthparents and adoptive parents.
Independent Adoption
Series of six stages that many families go through over the years.
Family Life Cycle
Having more than one culture represented.
Cultural Diversity
Term to describe the shared legal right of parents who are not married to provide care and make decision about their children's lives.
Joint Custody
Adoption in which a child is bought or sold.
Illegal Market Adoption
providing all aspects of care for a child, which includes meeting physical, mental, and social emotional needs.
Nuturance
families with members from two or more cultural groups.
Multi Cultural Families
Family in which several generations live together
Extended family
Adoption in which the identity of the birth parents and adopting family are not revealed.
Closed Adoption
words and actions parents use to influence their children behavior
Guidance
parenting style where the main objective is to make children completely obedient and parents set rules, but allow children some freedom
Authoritarian and Permissive
Families formed when a single parent marries another person and Process by which a child of one pair of parents legally become the child of other parents.
Step Families and Adoption
adoption that involves some degree of communication between the birthparents and adoptive family
and
families in which adults provide temporary homes for children who cannot live with their birthparents.
Open adoption and Foster families
use of methods and techniques to teach children self control and discipline technique in which parents use or threaten to use some form of physical punishment
Discipline and Power Assertion
parents set rules, but allow children some freedom and parenting by reasoning and explaining
Democratic and Induction