A home health nurse is visiting an Asian family. A married couple, their three children, and the maternal grandparents all live in the home. How should the nurse interpret the presence of the grandparents in the home?
A. The parents have diffuse boundaries and have allowed the grandparental subsystem to be present.
B. The grandparental subsystem is not successfully managing separation from the parental subsystem.
C. Extended family living arrangements are common in some cultures.
D. The nuclear family living arrangement is the preferred environment for childrearing.
C
The Asian culture highly respects the elderly. Having the grandparents living in the home is not uncommon in this culture.
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