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IV. CONCEPTS AND STRUCTURES IN THE FAMILY
WHAT IS A FAMILY?
- The basic unit in the society, that unities through marriage, blood, and adoption through each other in respective social roles, creating and maintaining a common culture, that characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction.
- “A family is a group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adaption; constituting a single household; interacting and communicating with each other in their respective roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister, and creating and maintain a common culture.” (Belen Medina, 1991, The Filipino Family)
2 MAJOR FAMILY STRUCTURES
1. Nuclear family (Traditional) - A family consisting of a married man & woman and their biological children.
2. Extended family - A family where Grandparents or Aunts and Uncles play major roles in the children’s upbringing. This may or may not include those relatives living with the children. These family members may be in addition to the child’s parents or instead of the child’s parents.
2 TYPES OF NUCLEAR FAMILY
1. Nuclear Origins
2. Nuclear Pro-Creation
2 TYPES OF EXTENDED FAMILY
1. Extended Consanguinial
2. Extended Conjugal
TYPES OF FAMILY STRUCTURE IN THE COMMUNITY
1. Adoptive family - A family where one or more of the children has been adopted. Any structure of family may also be an adoptive family
2. Blended family - A family that consists of members from two (or more) previous families.
3. Bi-racial/Multi-racial Family - A family where the parents are members of different racial identity groups. Trans-racial adoptive family: A family where the adopted child is of a different racial identity group than the parents.
4. Co-custody family - An arrangement where divorced parents both have legal responsibility for their children. Children may alternatively live with both parents or live with one and have regular visitation with the other.
5. Foster family - A family where one or more of the children is legally a temporary member of the household. This “temporary” period may be as short as a few days or as long as the child’s entire childhood. Kinship care families are foster families where there is a legal arrangement for the child to be cared for by relatives of one of the parents.
6. Single parent family - This can be either a father or a mother who is singly responsible for the raising of a child. The child can be by birth or adoption. They may be a single parent by choice or by life circumstances. The other parent may have been part of the family at one time or not at all.
7. Transnational family - These families live in more than one country. They may spend part of each year in their country of origin returning to the U.S. on a regular basis. The child may spend time being cared for by different family members in each country.
8. LGBT Family (Same Sex) - A family where one or both of the parents’ sexual orientation. This may be a two-parent family, an adoptive family, a single parent family or an extended family.
WHAT IS A FAMILY?
- The basic unit in the society, that unities through marriage, blood, and adoption through each other in respective social roles, creating and maintaining a common culture, that characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction.
- “A family is a group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adaption; constituting a single household; interacting and communicating with each other in their respective roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister, and creating and maintain a common culture.” (Belen Medina, 1991, The Filipino Family)
2 MAJOR FAMILY STRUCTURES
1. Nuclear family (Traditional) - A family consisting of a married man & woman and their biological children.
2. Extended family - A family where Grandparents or Aunts and Uncles play major roles in the children’s upbringing. This may or may not include those relatives living with the children. These family members may be in addition to the child’s parents or instead of the child’s parents.
2 TYPES OF NUCLEAR FAMILY
1. Nuclear Origins
2. Nuclear Pro-Creation
2 TYPES OF EXTENDED FAMILY
1. Extended Consanguinial
2. Extended Conjugal
TYPES OF FAMILY STRUCTURE IN THE COMMUNITY
1. Adoptive family - A family where one or more of the children has been adopted. Any structure of family may also be an adoptive family
2. Blended family - A family that consists of members from two (or more) previous families.
3. Bi-racial/Multi-racial Family - A family where the parents are members of different racial identity groups. Trans-racial adoptive family: A family where the adopted child is of a different racial identity group than the parents.
4. Co-custody family - An arrangement where divorced parents both have legal responsibility for their children. Children may alternatively live with both parents or live with one and have regular visitation with the other.
5. Foster family - A family where one or more of the children is legally a temporary member of the household. This “temporary” period may be as short as a few days or as long as the child’s entire childhood. Kinship care families are foster families where there is a legal arrangement for the child to be cared for by relatives of one of the parents.
6. Single parent family - This can be either a father or a mother who is singly responsible for the raising of a child. The child can be by birth or adoption. They may be a single parent by choice or by life circumstances. The other parent may have been part of the family at one time or not at all.
7. Transnational family - These families live in more than one country. They may spend part of each year in their country of origin returning to the U.S. on a regular basis. The child may spend time being cared for by different family members in each country.
8. LGBT Family (Same Sex) - A family where one or both of the parents’ sexual orientation. This may be a two-parent family, an adoptive family, a single parent family or an extended family.