Question

Married-blended families are those formed because of divorce and remarriage. They consist of unrelated family members such as stepparents, stepchildren, and stepsiblings. No-parent families are those in which children live independently in foster or kinship care such as living with a grandparent. Married-parent families (biologic or adoptive parents) make up the majority-about 48.4?

Answer 1

Blended families are formed when divorced or widowed adults with children remarry, while no-parent families consist of children living in foster or kinship care. Married-parent families make up the majority of families.

Step-by-step explanation:

Blended families are families in which there is more than one origin point for the members. This typically occurs when one or more divorced and/or widowed adults with children remarry, combining two formerly independent units into a new blended family. Blended families are common in the United States and in societies in which we find serial monogamy. According to Pew Research, about 16 percent of all American children lived in blended families in 2009.

On the other hand, no-parent families are those in which children live independently in foster or kinship care, such as living with a grandparent. In the United States, four percent of children live in families with couples who are not married. This number includes parents in same-sex relationships who were previously prohibited from getting married.

Married-parent families, whether biologic or adoptive parents, make up the majority of families, accounting for about 48.4 percent of all families.