A nurse is confident a family is functioning appropriately when:
1. The teenaged son keeps the money he earns cutting grass for his "car fund."
2. All the children are expected to excel in the sport of their choice.
3. A parent reads the preschool child a bedtime story each night.
4. All the children have household chores once they reach school age.
5. A young adult child moves back home when losing his job.
Correct Answer: 1,3,4,5
Rationale 1: An appropriately functioning family has the economic resources needed by the family secured by adult members.
Rationale 2: An appropriately functioning family provides support, understanding, and encouragement to all without rigid expectations that unnecessarily force decisions.
Rationale 3: An appropriately functioning family creates an atmosphere that influences the cognitive and the psychosocial growth of its members.
Rationale 4: An appropriately functioning family supports each other and the family unit.
Rationale 5: An appropriately functioning family provides support, understanding, and encouragement to all as they progress through predictable developmental stages, as they move in or out of the family unit, and as they establish new family units.
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