FAMILY COLLOCATIONS

I'm on good [friends / relations / terms] with all my former boyfriends.

A friend of mine [gave / took / went] birth to her son at home with the help of a nurse.

They have three biological children and two [adopted / adoptive / adopting] children.

My son is making a diagram of our family [roots / tree / web] for a school project.

Although my salary is low, I get child [assistance / provision / support] from my ex-husband.

A number of the kids in my classroom come from [broken / damaged / hurt] homes.

I was raised in a very [joyful / loving / tender] family, in which everyone helped each other.

My husband doesn't get along with a few of my family [people / individuals / members].

There are four people in my [close / immediate / neighboring] family.

John had a [carefree / careful / careless] childhood, growing up with happily married parents and three brothers.

Teenagers who had a [distressed / troubled / worsened] childhood often have behavior problems in school.

Sally was granted sole [custody / guardian / keeping] of the children from her first marriage.

My grandmother remembers the [black / dark / shady] days of the civil war.

I was [created / grown / raised] by my grandparents after my parents passed away.

The celebrity wrote a book about his [debilitated / defective / dysfunctional] family.

I see my [excepted / expanded / extended] family once a year, during our annual family vacation.