Rock U - People - Blended Families

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So let's look at blended families and the options that you have in Rock and how to map those blended families. The good news is there's several options, there's several different ways that you can map and configure blended families in Rock and it's really up to you to determine which one is best for you. And it might be that you don't determine to use one way or the other exclusively, but you choose in each family situation what's the best way. So let's look at a couple different ways that you can map, blended families. One way is through relationships. So if you go look at the known relationship videos, you'll see how you can create can check-in and parent of type of relationships. In these cases, the child will only be in one family and the other family, who maybe doesn't have, full custody, you'll just create those those known relationships. That accurately maps what's going on in in the real world. So you have those relationships, you can see who the parent is and you can see who can check-in, but it keeps the child in a single family. The other way is to put the child in both families and it's still one record in Rock. So that child only has one record but that record is attached to two different families. In this way there really is no precedent over which family. In future versions you will be able to select, which one is the primary family but in all in most cases it's just seen that the child is in both families. Now when you do that on the person profile page you'll see that there's two families when you're looking at the child and that allows you to see, that that that's the case that they're in both families. Which way you choose is exclusively up to you and up to the situation but it's good to know that both options exist and how they work.