Someone who is NOT married and has NO kids.

• ADVANTAGE: No money on another person

• Not making own family.

  
  

One or more children living in a house headed by 1 parent.

No other adult curving your rules you set in the household

No first hand help when needed.

Couple and THEIR children

Parents share children related responsibilities

Making time for themselves

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

Blending traditions

Adjusting to new styles

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

Family bonds

Establishing clear lines of authority

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

Giving a child stable home

Becoming attached to child who will eventually leave

A person who has financial and legal responsibility for a child

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

Kid doesn’t have a mom or dad

Couple legally adopts child

Can be a parent if they can’t have children

Parents may worry about biological parents wanting child back