Chapter 13-1• Delayed Marriage – The tendency to marry at older

ages. » 1) Being single is accepted» 2) College and career comes

before marriage» 3) People live together instead of

getting married is now generally accepted—but not by Mr. Brady.

• Remarriages –Marriages in which one or both of the partners has been married before.

• Blended Families – Families in which one or both partners bring children from a previous marriage into the new marriage.

• Two-income Families – Families in which both partners work.

Chapter 13-1• Single-parent Families – Families with only one

parent, typically formed through divorce, widowhood, adoption by single people, and births to single women.

Chapter 13-2• Family Law –The legal regulation of marriage,

divorce, and the duties of parents and children.• Child Abuse – The mental, physical, or sexual

mistreatment of a child.• Foster Homes – Homes of people who are

unrelated to a child but who agree to act as the child’s caregivers.

Chapter 13-2• Guardian –A person appointed by a state court to

look after an individual who is not an adult or who is unable to care for himself or herself.

• Adopt – To legally establish a child as one’s own.• Divorce – A legal ending of a marriage.• No-fault Divorce – A divorce in which a couple

states the marriage has problems that cannot be resolved.

Chapter 13-3Fixed Expenses – Expenses that occur regularly