Exam 15: Remarriage: Reinvented, Renewed, and Blended Families

Mother/son incestuous relationships are rare.

Your father's new wife and her adult children can be labeled ________.

In stepbrother/sister incest, the average age of the brother was about ________ years old and that of the sister about ________ years old.

The most common form of blended families is

Nearly ________ of American families with children have at least one set of grandparents who have been divorced.

Identify the three types of blended families. Describe each type.

According to David Finkelhor, when the mother is absent or incapacitated, what precondition for child sexual abuse has been satisfied?

A stepmother is expected to be loving toward her stepchildren but at the same time is also viewed as evil and selfish. This is called the ________ ________.

The most cited problem about being single reported by middle-aged singles was lack of ________.

Describe the types of loss and sadness that characterize blended families.

A ________ family is a family in which former spouses and children live in two different households.

The stage in blended families in which the members feel that they are comfortable with one another is the ________ stage.

A(n)________ family is when at least one child is the biological child of both parents and the other children are the biological children of one parent and are stepchildren to the other parent.

Identify the problems experienced by stepchildren in new stepfamilies.

The inclusion of stepparents with both biological parents as a part of a child's definition of their "real family" is an example of the ________ definition of family.

Some stepfamilies never become fully integrated as one family.

Reducing chances for sexual abuse in blended families includes

The number one reason stated by middle-aged singles for dating was

In ________, a person has been married three or more times.

________ refers to rules about who is and is not considered a member of the family.