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Placing a child in the temporary care of a family other than its own as the result of problems or challenges that are taking place within the birth family

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Can be very rewarding

Giving a child a stable home

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Child has difficult problems from past

Becoming attached to child who will eventually leave

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A person who has financial and legal responsibility for a child

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Child has a temporary safe home

Guardian can legally register them for school, handle medical needs, etc.

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Child doesn’t have security of permanent home

Child doesn’t have a mom or dad

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A couple that legally adopts a child

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Can be a parent if they can't have children

Child has a family

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Child (if older) needs to adjust to new family

Parents may worry about biological parents wanting child back

Child wants to find bio family

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A couple and one or more children from a previous relationship and one parent becomes a stepparent

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Having new experiences

Blending traditions

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Blending personalities

Change in rules

Adjusting to new styles

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Family with a relative living with them – aunt, uncle, grandparent, cousin

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Family bonds

More resources

Having extra help

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Getting along with relatives

Establishing clear lines of authority

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One or more children living in a house headed by one parent

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Not having parents that disagree on raising a child

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Managing ALL the responsibilities of family life

Time and energy

Finding opposite sex role model

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A family that is made up of a couple and their children

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Parents shaare child care responsibility

Children have support of both parents

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Making time for themselves

Balancing family and work

Conflict in raising children (rules, religion, etc)

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Two people in a long term relationship (usually means married) with no children

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Income

Focus on each other

Easier to divorce without kid

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Career conflict

Easier to divorce without kids

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Someone who is not married and has no kids

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Have a lot of freedom

Time to devote to career and interests

Their income is their own

May live alone

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Income may be an issue

May have periods of loneliness

May have a roomate