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| legal agreement to end marriage |
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| consists of a couple and their child or children living together in one household |
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| legal porcess by which parents parents take anothers childs childs into their family to be raised as their own |
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| family in which only one parent lives with the child or children |
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| group of close relitives living together or near each other |
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| adult or couple cares for children whose biological parents can not or are unable to care for them |
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| teaching children to behave in a way that is acceptable to the family and to society |
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| an arrangement in which spouses live apart and try to work out their problems |
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| abuse of one spouse by another |
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| intentionally causing physical harm to another person |
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| when an adult uses a child or adolescent for sexual purposes, he or she is commiting a criminal offense |
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| nonphysical mistreatment of a person |
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| adults fail to provide for the basic needs of children |
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| child who leaves home without permission and stays away for at least one night, or two nights for 15 or older |
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| the ability to understand another person's thoughts or feelings |
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| brothers and sisters, compete for their parents' attention, for possessions, and for recognition |
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| a network of people who help each other cope witha particular problem |
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