Types of Families

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Family
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Family

• A group of 2 or more persons
• can be related by blood, marriage or adoption
• Reside together in a household

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My Family
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Procreation

• Reproduction
• Bringing another generation into the family

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Two-parent Family

• Made up of a married couple and their children
• Usually centred around the children
• Sometimes called a nuclear family
• ¼ of families

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Single-parent Family

• Mother or Father takes care of the children
• Occurs as result of
• Divorce
• Separation
• Death
• Children outside of marriage
• 1/8 of families

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Stepfamily

• 1 or both spouses have been married before
• They have children from their previous marriage

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Extended Kinship Family

• Several generations of family living together

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Foster Parenting

• Provides children with substitute families while
  their parents are unable to care for them
• Can be for long or short time
• periods

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Adoptive Parents

• A person or couple decides to take legal
  responsibility for a child
• An adoptive child fits in to the existing family
  structure

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Given Role

• Role you acquire when you were born into the
  family
• Ex Brother, Sister, Daughter, Son, Grand
  daughter

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Chosen Role

• Role you choose to take
• Can have more than one at a time
• Emphasis will change at times
• Ex Girlfriend Boyfriend, Mother, Wife, Husband

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Functional Family

• All family members fulfil their roles and
  responsibilities.

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Dysfunctional Family

• When one or more members of the family do not
  fulfil their responsibilities.
• Family is out of balance
• Ex parent who leaves, teen who rebels

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Family Life Cycle
Adjusting to married life, being separated from
parents and starting careers
Retirement, grand parenting, friendship, hobbies,
interest, travel
Prep for retirement, provide support for children
who are starting their own family
Birth of children focus on needs of children
Children leave from home, parents focus on
relationship. Relate to children as adults
Focus on children and their school, parents
recognize individual needs of each child