Title: FAMILY STRUCTURES
1FAMILY STRUCTURES
- Nuclear
- Single Parent
- Step/Blended
- Multi-Generational/Extended
- Adoptive
- Foster
2Foldable
- Fold your paper like a hotdog and then into
thirds to create six sections when opened. - Write the heading and description of each family
structure into the appropriate section.
3NuclearTwo married parents (mother father)
with biological children.
4Single Parent One parent (mother or father)
raising child or children due to death, divorce
or abandonment.
5Step/BlendedOne or both parents have been
married before bringing their children from the
previous marriage into the family. They may have
children together.
6Multi-Generational/Extended2 or 3 generations
living under one roof
7AdoptiveParents go through the courts to make
children legally their own. Adoptions can be
very diverse culturally speaking.
8FosterA child that is temporarily placed with a
family until the childs family problems are
settled.
9What Kind of Family Am I?
- 1. Has only one parent to fulfill many
responsibilities and roles of parenting. - 2. Includes stepchildren or half brothers and
sisters. - 3. Has grandparents living with the family.
- 4. Includes children who may have been born to
other birth parents. - 5. Parents and children are all blood related.
10- Power Point Created by Kim Graybill
- for East Juniata High School