During assessment of a child's biologic family history,it is especially important that the nurse asking the mother for information should use the term "child's father"instead of "your husband"in the situation of a
1. traditional nuclear family.
2. traditional extended family.
3. two-income nuclear family.
4. cohabitating informal stepfamily.
Answer:4
Rationale: The mother from the cohabitating informal stepfamily does not have a husband;the nurse should be asking about the "child's father."In the traditional nuclear family,the traditional extended family,and the two-income nuclear family, the child's father is the same person as the mother's husband.
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