Across
- 3. regulates marriage, divorce
- 5. when a couple simply states that their marriage problems cannot be resolved
- 6. helping people to learn how to do things and support them to think about what they learn
- 7. a formal union and social and legal contract between two individuals that unites their lives
- 8. stepfamilies
- 11. when a couple gets divorced, a spouse dies, or a single parent has or adopts a child
- 13. the gaurdian has legally established the child is his or her own
- 15. a decision reached by two or more people or groups
- 17. families in which both parents work
- 19. regular expenses
Down
- 1. one or both of the partners have been married before
- 2. marrying at an older age
- 4. a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit
- 8. a plan for using money
- 9. emotional abuse, physical injury, or sexual abuse inflicted on a child by another person
- 10. change, or have an effect on
- 12. a person appointed by a state cout to care for a child
- 14. ways of doing something
- 16. legally ending a marriage
- 18. a home of people unrelated to the child who agree to take care of him or her