| A | B |
|---|
| Values | what is important to people |
| Adopted children | children who enter a family permanently as a result of a legal process |
| Extended family | a family that includes relatives besides parents and children |
| Emotional maturity | quality that allows people to handle the changes that parenthood brings |
| Parenthood | having responsibility for a child either as a result of birth or a legal process |
| Step parent | a parent’s new spouse |
| Foster children | children in need of a temporary home |
| Nuclear family | family consisting of two parents and at least one child |
| Blended family | mother with children marries man with children |
| Guardians | usually a relative of the children who are caring for the children because the parents died in and auto accident |
