Answers to in-text Questions
| Caption | Answer |
| How many different types of family can you identify in this illustration? Are there any that are omitted, and would you have included all those that are illustrated here? | This example shows twenty different families, but it does not include all possible family structures. For example, none of the famlies show children and pets, or adult children and elderly parents. |
| Families come in many forms. What three forms of family are depicted in this photography? | The three forms of family shown are nuclear; nontraditional family with two same-sex parents, possibly blended; and family of choice. |
| What could these children learn from the stories told about their mother's experiences in the military? | They learn to value the world in a way that the mother does (service, duty, and allegiance to the country), but they also learn about the changing role of women in society, as military service used to be only a "man's job". |
| What might the children be learning from seeing their parents fight like this? | The children may be learning about the instability of marriage, they may be learning about power struggles within a relationship, or they may be learning about what is appropriate and not appropriate to see, hear, or say in a family environment. |
| What problems might "weekend parents" experience in handling their kids." | They may have to live in a place that is too small to accommodate a whole family; they may have different rules about behavior; they may not want to be painted as the “bad parent" so they let the kids get spoiled; and they may have parallel lives that involve them with other people or with work that distracts them from their parental role on weekends. |