Family Scenarios
Webquest
Choose one of the following
situations to develop your
marriage and family case study.
Once you choose a situation,
you will use and reuse it
throughout the term.
Name the people in your
scenario and write a paragraph
filling in the details their lives.
Instructions
• As you complete later modules,
continue filling in the details of the stories as is
appropriate for the topic of the module
• In future modules, you will be directed to seek
resources that might assist your characters
• Whenever possible incorporate content from the
textbook
• At the end of the class, suggest an appropriate
ending for the story.
• Stick with the same basic scenario through all the
assignment options related to this activity.
Scenario #1
• He is high school senior with
plans to attend college in
another state
• She is high school junior with
very protective parents
• Each is trying to clarify values
related to becoming
sexually active should the
opportunity arise
Scenario #2
• She is a college student
• He has just passed the bar exam and
has a time-consuming job in a local
law firm
• He would like to have
a baby soon after
he marries
• She would like to
work several years
before she begins a
family
Scenario #3
• He is single parent father but would
like to find a new partner
• His ex-wife is not interested in the child
and rarely keeps her appointments to visit
or take her daughter on
outings
• However, she is very
jealous when she hears
that he has been out
on a date.
Scenario #4
• She is a professional who works lots
of hours on her job
• She does not drink or smoke and hates
the bar scene for meeting
possible partners
• She has been emailing a man
she met on the internet for
6 months and is curious
about meeting him.
Scenario #5
• She is a sixtysomething widow who
lives on social security
and a small pension
• He is a late sixties
retired widower
• Both have grown
children who do not
support new
relationships for their
parents
Scenario #6
• Newly weds who met and married
within a month
• Both are employed but in different
cities
• Parents on both sides generally
approve but refuse to take sides
or provide any financial support
Scenario #7
• He is a newly naturalized citizen from
Pakistan
• He is widower with one daughter (pictured
in green)
• She is divorced
mother of four
• She is housewife
• He is computer
specialist
Scenario #8
• Both had previous
partners
• Only one has “come
out” to parents and
coworkers
• Both are employed
but one is professional and other works
in sales at a department store