2. The word family has been taken from roman word
Famulous meaning “A Servant”. In roman law the
word family denote the group of producers and slaves
and other servant as well as members connected to
common descends and much.
Machlare defines family as;
“Group defined by a sex pre-relationship sufficiently
precise and enduring to provide for the procreation
and upbringing of children.
3. Nimoff defines as family;
“it is a more or less durable
association husband and wife
without children man or
woman and alone with
children.
Definition given by the
Burea of Cancers (USA) is
more easy. According to
Bearu family is “A group of
two or more persons related
by blood, marriage or
adoption and rising
together.
4. According to Burgers and
Lokep;
A family is “A group of person
united by ties, by marriage,
blood adoption, constituting a
single house hold, interacting
and inter communication with
each other in their respective
role with husband, wife, mother
and father , son and daughter,
brother and sister creating a
common culture.
5. Characteristics of Family:
i. Mating Relationship
ii. A form of Marriage
iii. A common Habitation
iv. A system of Nomenclature
v. Economic Provision
6. Mating Relationship:
A family comes into existence when a man and a
woman establish matting relation between them.
A form of marriage:
A matting relationship is establish through the
institution marriage.
A common habitation:
A family required a home or house hold for his
living with addling place, the task of child rearing and
child cannot be adequately performed.
9. A System Nomenclature:
Every family is known by name and its own
system of reckoning descent may be reckoned through
the male line or through the female line (Usually the
wife goals and joins her husband relation but sometime
the husband also may go and trying.
Economics Provision
Every family meet on economic provision to satisfy
economic meets the head of family carried on certain
profession and earns money to maintain the family.
12. Meclar divides the functions of the family into two
categories .
1. Essential Function
2. Non Essential Function
13. Essential Function
•Satisfaction of Sex need:
•Production and rearing of
children
•Provision of a home
•Religion
•Education
•Social
•Recreational
14. 1. Satisfaction of Sex need:
This first essential function of the family is perpetual
satisfaction of sex instinct bring the desire or lifelong
partnership among male and female.
16. 2. Production and rearing of children
The inevitable rest of sexual satisfaction is procreation .
The task of race perpetuation has always an important
Function of family it is an institution per excellence for
the production and rearing of children. The function of
child rearing is better perform today their because now
more skill and knowledge are devoted on the chair of the
urban or new urban child.
17. 3. Provision of a home
Desire of shelter is a powerful intensive for man or
woman to marriage. Man occurs the hard coin of the day
returns home, where in the his wife and children are the
source of relief of his fatigue. Though in modern time
there are hotels and clubs , which are also provide
recreation to the man, but the joy that a man feels within
congenial circle of women parents and children stand for
above the monitory pleasure. Which is provided by the
club and hotels.
19. 4. Religion
Family is a center for the religions training of the
children, who learns from their parents .Various religions
were virtues. The religious and moral training of children
has always been bound up with home and though formal
religious education has reached into the earliest years
the family still furnished the matrix of religious ideas,
attitude and practices.
In the family, the basic notion of God, of salvation
and of morality are acquired during childhood.
21. 5. Education
As the education provide the basis of all the children,
latest formal learning. The interaction of parents and
children are the foundation. In which most of the
intellectual and emotional conditioning of the child take
place.
An other function performed in the family is
education of children. The child who wants to learn the
first lathers under the quiz dance of parents. The
traditional family was the center of vocational education
because the children were early child . However
associated with family task. The modern family has
delegated the task of vocational to technical institutes
and colleges.
23. 06. Social
The family is an important unit of society. It imparts
teaching to the individual at all. Those subjects,
where he can become an ideal member of society, as
it has been observed by Mack and Young.
The basic socialization of the child take place in
the family all the fundamental ideas, muscular skills,
and norms are acquired in the home, the child also
learns a great deal not deliberately that is
unconsciously. This is especially true of basic attitude
and value.
26. 07. Recreational
The old family provided, recreation to its
member, they use to sing and dance together
and visit the family relation is now available in
hotels, clubs rather home.