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1. Supporting Parenting
Contents Block 2:
Family Diversity. Parenting
Styles
Sexual
Orientation
Family and
social change
Bullying
Some Ideas to Start…
Henry M. Trotter at English Wikipedia –
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2. Didyou
know
that....?
Family diversity refers to the many characteristics
in which families might vary, which might affect
their internal functioning and ability to adapt
successfully to their particular circumstances.
These characteristics are not only those
associated with types or contemporary
structures of families
Family diversity takes also into account also other
criteria such as, for example:

3. Didyou
know
that....?
Demographic
issues
Ethnicity, socioeconomic status,
rural/urban families, working
circumstances of the parents size,
number of children, etc.
Different
parents
reactions to
children
behaviors
Parents
parenting
styles and
family
organization
Age and
development
stages of the
children
Vulnerability
of and risks
for the family
functioning,
for example:
Drugs consumption, children systematic
school absenteeism and failure, delinquency,
poverty, adolescents pregnancy, children
living abandoned, in extended or in other
families.
Family
members
with special
needs
Permissive, authoritarian,
authoritative or uninvolved/negligent

4. Didyouknow
that?
Most parents show different parenting styles at
different times depending of their specific
children's behaviour, their own emotional state at
a particular time, the context, the amount of time
they have to interact with their children, etc…

5. Changes from the traditional family to todays' family
Features of the traditional family "Detours" to the standard of the traditional
family
Married Households single person, facts unions
With children Families without children
Cohabitation Separate housing: "Living-apart-together“, couples shuttle
Two biological parents Single parents; rebuilt and foster families, Aatificial insemination
Lifelong Marriage Successive Marriage (Step/Rebuilt Families)
Exclusive Monogamy Non-exclusive relationship forms: e.g. mother married with a
son of a man (concubinage).
Heterosexual couples Homosexual and transsexual couples
Man as main support element Equitable weddings: both spouses are employees, “home
owners"
Households with two adults Households with more than two adults: extended families,
communities
Families are monocultural Families are bicultural

6. Before going through the activities,
please watch the following video
and collect some tips!