The community health nurse is planning to visit the family in the associated photo. The grandparents ...

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Rationale: In an extended family, a couple shares household and childrearing responsibilities with parents, siblings, or other relatives. Families may reside together to share housing expenses and child care. In many cases, a child may be residing with a grandparent and one parent because of issues associated with unemployment, parental separation, parental death, or parental substance abuse. Grandparents may raise children due to the inability of parents to care for their own children. In the nuclear family, children live in a household with both biologic parents and no other relatives or persons. The blended family includes two parents with biologic children from a previous marriage or relationship who marry or cohabitate. A binuclear family is a post-divorce family in which the biologic children are members of two nuclear households, with parenting by both the father and the mother.