Title: Describe American family structure/functioning.
Course: Individual Development (19260-36) > Section: Building the Family Unit

Description may include

- nuclear
- single-parent
- step
- blended
- foster and adoptive
- extended (e.g., multi-generational)
- same-sex
- grandparent as head-of-household.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How would you define the term family?
- What are the various family structures?
- How have family structures changed over the last few decades?

Communication

- What are some decisions to which all family members can contribute?
- How do family relationships affect future relationships with others?

Leadership

- What are some ways in which children support their parent(s)?
- What are some steps that children take to become independent from their families?

Management

- How do you balance individual needs with the responsibilities of the family?
- What can family teach us about our individual selves?
- What are a parent's basic obligations to a child? What are the child's basic obligations to a parent?