1. Chapter 3 Study Guide

2. 1. How do television families differ from real families?
Solve complex problems in a half hour
Incredibly witty
Unusually attractive
Ridiculous
Some show the “ideal” image
Can you think of any examples??
View: Full House

3. Worksheet: Family Patterns
Match the term that best matches each statement

4. 2. Why are single people considered still part of a family?
Maintain family bonds
Turn to friends if they have little or no close family
Friends become their family

5. 3. There are some benefits of being a single adult, name them.
Do not have to coordinate with anyone else’s schedule
Time to devote to their career, interests, and community involvement
Feeling of independence

6. 4. What are the advantages and disadvantages that couples deal with in their everyday lives?
Have time to focus on each other
Two incomes
Disadvantages:
Careers

7. 5. In a nuclear family, a child can learn what is means to be a mother & father firsthand.
Advantages:
Responsibilities shared
More energy/time for children
Having another adult around
Disadvantages:
Expense for childcare
What if one parent stayed home – advantages/disadvantages?

8. 6. What the greatest challenge for a single-parent family?
Juggling all the responsibilities

9. 7. How can children help in a single-parent family?
Young child – age 4
Clean up after themselves
Preteen – age 12
Help out around the house
Teenage – age 17
Get a job to help with the bills

10. 8. What specific challenges might a single-parent have to deal with?
Provide and manage income
Take care of all household tasks
Give love and guidance to children

11. 9. What are the advantages of being a member of a single-parent household?
More independence
Self-sufficient
Less exposure to conflict

12. 10. single-parenting is formed from:
Divorce: 39%
Separated but not divorced: 24%
Death of a parent: 6%
Never married:31%

13. 11. How is a blended family formed?
Husband, wife, and children from previous relationships
Related by marriage, but not birth
Family members become step- mother/father/brother/sister
Children born into family become
half-brother/sister to existing
children

14. 12. How do nuclear and blended families differ?
Nuclear families are related by birth
Blended families are related by marriage
Will members of blended or nuclear families be better at getting along with others outside of
the family?

15. 13. benefits/problems that occur with extended families
Important resource for each other
Problem:
Many personal types
May take advantage of family ties

16. 14. Why do people adopt children?
Cannot have children on their own
Prefer to take care of those in need
Adopt a relative

17. 15. Explain the difference between adoptive and foster families.
Adoptive families go through legal processes
Foster families only take care of children temporarily
Receive money from the government

18. 16. What is the responsibilities of a legal guardian?
Financial management of child’s assets
Legal responsibility to provide shelter, education, and medical care

19. Review:
Family Structures

20. Modern Family
View an episode of Modern Family and identify the different family structures

21. assignment Family structure cartoon assignment
With your assigned family structure, create a cartoon about an issue this family type may face.
Make sure that to include an explanation of your cartoon and how the issue relate to the family structure

22. 17. 4 characteristics of family personality
Atmosphere of the home
The way the family manages
Dependence level of members
Family’s values

23. 18. Describe the atmosphere of a healthy family
Allows people to make the best of themselves and each other
It doesn’t matter if they feel love/secure

24. 19. Autocratic vs. democratic
One person makes all major decisions
Democratic
Decisions made by more than one person
Advantages/disadvantages of each??

25. 20. Why is too much dependence a problem?
Feels confining and limits people
Members rely too heavily on each other
Their needs blend and are less aware of their individuality
Shy away from outside world

26. Worksheet: family personalities
Read the given case study and answer the questions below.

27. Activity: family personality game

28. Chapter 3 section 2

29. 1. Why is the beginning stage of the life cycle an important one?
Major decisions must be faced
Career/financial decisions
You are still getting to know each other

30. 2. Name 3 types of decisions young couples make.
Where to live?
Close to work or family?
Career decisions
Stay at home to raise kids?
Finances
Joint bank accounts?

31. 3. What occurs in the expanding part of parental stage?
New members added to family
Much focus on home and family life

32. 3. What occurs in the developing part of parental stage?
Children in school
Focus on activities outside of the home
Teens spending more time with friends
More independence

33. 3. What occurs in the launching part of parental stage?
Children leaving home
Your oldest is a senior in college and your youngest just started their first year at college, are your parenting stages over?
May extend if/when children move back home from college

34. 4. What is meant by “empty nest”?
Home with children gone
Leaves parents without a purpose

35. 5. Why do income pressures decrease in the middle age stage?
Time of career peaks
Making more money than ever before!
Children no longer and expense
More money to save/spend

36. 6. What are 2 reasons grandparents are involved with caring for grandchildren?
Family problems
Both parents have full time jobs

37. 7. Explain 2 concerns people have at retirement.
Financial concerns
Get a new job after retiring?
What to do with their time

38. 8. Is the family life cycle the only family pattern that people follow?
NO!!
People can remarry and go back to parental stages
Couples may not have children
Could be in the launching stage and have another child
Retire and then have kids
Grandparents raising kids at home

39. Stages of the family life cycle
Beginning Stage
Parental Stage
Expanding years
Developing years
Launching years
Middle Age Stage
Retirement Stage

40. Worksheet: family life cycle
Read each situation and identify which stage of the family life cycle is described

41. Activity: Family life cycle skits
When in groups of 2-3, a stage of the family life cycle will be assigned to your group.
As a group, make a skit revolving around a situation that typically occurs for a family in the stage you have been assigned
Each person in the group should speak at least 5 times
Present the skits to the class

42. Activity: Family life cycle paper plate
Divide a paper plate into 8 sections by either folding the plate or using colored pencils/ruler
Read through instructions to determine what information should be included in each section
Must be colored!