Having a Terminal Illness May Operate as a Master Status

question 61

True/False

Having a terminal illness may operate as a master status because people can react to the disease as much as they do to the person.

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Definitions:

Mother-stepfather family

A family structure consisting of a biological mother, her children, and a stepfather, formed after the mother enters a new marital or cohabiting relationship.

Complex stepfamily

A family structure that includes children from previous relationships of both partners, as well as any children they may have together.

Complex stepfamily

A family structure formed when parents remarry or cohabit with new partners, bringing together children from previous relationships, and potentially having new children, creating complex relationships.

Biological children

Offspring to whom parents are genetically related.