presentation on Family types and functions

2.  a group of people
living together
usually under the
same roof and are
related by blood
marriage or adoption.
They support and
maintain each other
socially, emotionally
and economically.

3. What
Characterize a
Family ?
People must
live together There must be
relations

4. • Nuclear
Family
Parent and
child/ children
• Extended
Family/
Big yard
Grand parents,
parents, aunts,
uncles,
cousins,
• Single
Parent
One parent
Types of Family

5. Types of Family
Sibling Family
Recognized
Family

6. Nuclear Family
This is said to be the
ideal family. It consists
of both parents
(mother and father)
and child or children.
Can be formed
through
1. Marriage
2. Common- law union

7. • Living together under the same
roof or on the same compound.
There is Grand parents, aunts
and uncles with their husbands/
wives and children, cousins,
sisters and brothers.

8. This Family is common in
Jamaica. It is where both
parents are absent and an
older family member or friend
is left to watch over the
house hold.

9. A new family type:
formed when one spouse
may have had an earlier
relationship that has been
broken and forms another
one taking the children in.
In such families there
may be several half-
sisters and brothers.

10. Family Unions
Legal Union
The Family
by which a
formal
marriage is
carried out
Common- Law
Union
This is becoming
very popular in our
world. This is when a
man and a woman
live as man and wife
together under the
same roof without the
legal marriage
ceremony.

11. Family Unions
Visiting
Relationship
A type of
relationship in
which a woman
live without a
permanent
spouse. She is
visited by males
for sexual
purposes.

12. Advantages
of Family
Types

13. Nuclear Family