Families

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Families

• Health Class
• Mr. Echols

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Objectives/Standards

• Lesson Objectives The student will be able to
• -Identify the different types of families
• -Identify the 2 functions of a family
• -Know which type family they belong to
• State Standards
• Standard 4- Students analyze the influence
  of culture, media, technology and other factors
  on health.
• Standard 7- Students demonstrate the ability to
  advocate for personal, family and community
  health.

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Functions of a Family

• Primary support system to meet your basic needs.
• Help prepare you to live independently in the
  world.

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The Nuclear Family

• Consists of parents and one or more children
  sharing a household.
• Parents are both the biological parents of
  child/children.

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The Single-Parent Family

• Only one parent lives with the child or children.
• Most often the parent is the mother.
• Causes Divorce
• Had child out of wedlock.
• Husband or wife is deceased.
  

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The Extended Family

• Consists of one or more relatives in addition to
  the nuclear or single-parent family.
• Examples Grandparents, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin,
  Niece, or Nephew.

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The Blended Family

• Type of nuclear family in which one or both
  people have been married before.
• Each may have a child/children from a previous
  marriage.
• Examples Stepparents, stepbrothers, stepsisters,
  half-brothers, half-sisters.

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The Adoptive Family

• The children are not related by birth to the
  parents.
• Through legal procedure, parents adopt child and
  care for them as if they were their children by
  birth.
• Can be a nuclear, single-parent,
• or blended family.

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The Foster Family

• One or more of the children are not the birth
  children of parent/parents.
• Government agencies arrange for child to stay
  with family for an extended period of time.
• Can be nuclear, single-parent, or blended.

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The Other Family

• Married couples with no children.
• Homosexual Couple
• People who band together and take care for each
  other.
• Foreign-Exchange student, or a Group Home.

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T.V. Shows

• Nuclear Family Shows

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T.V. Shows

• Single-Parent Shows

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T.V. Shows

• Extended Family Shows

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T.V. Shows

• Blended Family Shows

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T.V. Shows

• Adoptive Family Shows

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T.V. Shows

• Foster Family Shows

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T.V. Shows

• Other Family Shows

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Family Assignment(15 points)

• Tell me in a paragraph the following
• -What type of family do you belong to?
• -Has your family type ever changed?
• -Does your family meet the functions of a
  
• family, why/why not?