Week # 7

Information from Chapter 5: Family Relationships

Family Forms:

1. Nuclear Family:consists of a couple and their child or children living together in one household.

2. Single-Parent Family: is a family were only one parent lives with the child or children

3. Extended Family: a group of close relatives that live together

4. Blended Family: consists of a biological parent, a step parent, and the children of one or both parents

5. Foster Family: an adult or couple cares for children whose biological parents are unable to care for them

6. Other Family: groups of people who don't fall into one of the other categories

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Additional  Vocabulary:

1. separation: an arrangement where spouses live apart and try to work out their problems

2. Domestic abuse: the abuse of a spouse

3. Physical abuse: is intentionally causing physical harm to another person

4. Sexual abuse: when an adult uses a child or adolescent for sexual purposes

5. Emotional abuse: the non-physical mistreatment of a person

6. runaway: is a child who leaves home without permission and stays away for at least one night or two nights for teens 15 or older

Win-Win Negotiation:

1. Describe the problem

2. See the other point of view

3. Involve the other person

4. share and discuss

5. Invent Solutions

6. Agree on a solution

Understand how each step above is important for reaching a conclusion. 

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