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| Psychological Parent | a person serving as a parent who is not biologically related to the child |
| Postmodern Family | term meant to include all family variations existing today |
| Nonresidential Fathers | fathers who don't live in the primary residence of their children |
| Cohabitation | the condition of heterosexual couples living together without being married |
| Trial Marriage | cohabiting to assess whether partners are sufficiently compatible for marriage |
| Cohabitation Effect | a phenomenon in which couples who cohabit before they marry are more likely to divorce |
| Serial Monogamy | an involvement in a single exclusive relationship followed by another exclusive relationship |
| Civil Union | same sex couples recognized in certain states without the legal rights guaranteed by the federal government to traditional married couples |
| Domestic Partnership | same sex couples or cohabiting couples recognized in certain states but without the legal rights guaranteed by the federal government to traditional married couples |
| Bigamy | the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another |
| Sandwich Generation | the generation that may be responsible for care for aging parents and young children at the same time |
| Empty Nest | a home after the last child has left home |
| Spacious Nest | the transition to more physical room in the empty nest home and more psychological space for the marital relationship |
| Renested Family or Cluttered Nest | a home to which adult children have returned to live temporarily |
| Boomerang Kids | adult children who return to live with parents temporarily |
| Fixed Income | income from a pension, annuity, or other source that is frozen at a certain level; fixed incomes may be increased with cost-of-living raises |
| Assisted Suicide | the situation in which one person supplies the means for another to commit suicide in order to prevent suffering |
| Euthanasia | taking another person's life to prevent suffering |
| Passive Euthanasia | withholding treatment that would prolong life because the current quality of life is minimal |
