RT Book, Section
A1 Bauman, Laurie J.
A1 Stein, Ruth E. K.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 6739137
T1 Chapter 96. Families in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Families
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6739137
RD 2024/04/19
AB Pediatricians  provide  care  for  children  who  live  in  a  variety  of  family  situations.  Children  may  live  with  two  working  parents,  unmarried  parents,  grandparents,  or  another  nonparental  caregiver,  or  they  may  live  in  single-parent  families  where  the  mother  may  be  divorced  or  never  married,  or  they  may  live  with  gay  parents,  in  foster  homes,  or  in  blended  families.  The  traditional  nuclear  family,  consisting  of  a  mother  and  a  father  who  are  married  and  living  with  their  biological  children,  is  becoming  rare;  in  fact,  only  25%  of  households  fit  this  description.1  Although  it  was  the  norm  three  decades  ago,  today  only  one  half  of  American  households  include  a  married  couple,  and  only  one  half  of  those  have  children.1  Only  one  third  of  preschoolers  are  raised  in  a  two-parent  home  with  a  working  father  and  a  mother  who  stays  home  full-time.2  Given  the  diversity  of  family  forms,  it  is  important  to  identify  the  ideas  central  to  the  definition  of  family.