Family Structures and Legal Agreements

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A legal agreement to end a marriage

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Divorce

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A family that consists of a couple and their child or children living together in one household

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Nuclear Family

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The legal process by which parents take another person's child into their family to be raised as their own

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Adoption

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A family in which only one parent lives with the child or children

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Single-parent family

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A group of close relatives living together or near each other

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Extended Family

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A family that consists of a biological parent, a stepparent, and the children of one or both parents

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Blended family

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A family situation in which an adult or couple cares for children whose biological parents are unable to care for them

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Foster family

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The process in which adult family members are responsible for teaching children to behave in a way that is acceptable to the family and to society

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Socialization

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An arrangement in which spouses live apart and try to work out their problems

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Separation

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The abuse of one spouse by another

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Domestic abuse