The nurse is assessing two adults who are learning to live together, have children, and hold a job. For which type of family should the nurse plan interventions?
1. Family with older adults
2. Family with school-age children
3. A couple
4. Family with infants or preschoolers
Answer: 3
1. Older adults may not necessarily be employed and probably won't be deciding about children.
2. These adults are learning to live together and have children.
3. A couple is two people living together with or without being married, who are in a period of establishing themselves as a couple. Their tasks are to adjust to living together as a couple, establish a mutually satisfying relationship, relate to kin, and decide whether or not to have children.
4. This couple is learning to live together and have children.
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