Flashcards on Family: Types, Roles, and Challenges
Family: Types, Roles, & Challenges - Student Guide
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Family Structures and Relationships
17 cards
Card 1
Question: What is a traditional family composed of?
Answer: A mother, father and their children living together in one home.
Card 2
Question: What family members can live together in more generations of a family?
Answer: Grandparents, parents and grandchildren can live together.
Card 3
Question: Which relatives often meet regularly in extended families?
Answer: Cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews often meet regularly.
Card 4
Question: What is a single parent?
Answer: A parent who is raising a child or children alone, often after divorce or the death of the other parent.
Card 5
Question: What do you call a family formed when parents remarry and include stepparents and stepchildren?
Answer: A stepfamily.
Card 6
Question: What does it mean for a family to be functioning?
Answer: Its members are happy together and tolerate each other.
Card 7
Question: Why do many young people delay starting a family?
Answer: They want to finish studies, build a career, and earn enough money to become independent.
Card 8
Question: How have young fathers' roles changed today compared to the past?
Answer: Young fathers spend more time with their children and do more housework than before.
Card 9
Question: What should parents teach their children besides good and bad?
Answer: How to solve problems and how to care about others.
Card 10
Question: How do democratic parents behave toward their children?
Answer: They talk with their children and respect them.