This document discusses different aspects of the family including definitions, structures, functions, and characteristics of Filipino families. It provides definitions of family from Murdock and Burgess and Locke focusing on common residence, economic cooperation, reproduction, ties of marriage, blood, and interaction. It outlines different forms of marriage including monogamy, polygamy, and types of partner selection. Family structures are organized based on internal membership, descent, residence, and authority. Specific types of families are defined like nuclear, extended, conjugal, consanguineal, patrilineal, matrilocal, and more. Functions of the family include regulating behavior, reproduction, socializing children, and providing economic function. Characteristics of Fil

2. Family
Murdock (1949:1)
•Common residence
•Economic Cooperation
•Reproduction
Burgess and Locke (1963:2)
•Ties of Marriage
•Blood or Adaptation
•Interaction/Communication

3. Marriage
Important
Institutional Element
Foundation of the Family
Family Code
of the
Philippines
Inviolable
Institution

4. Forms of Marriage
Monogamy PolygamyMonogamy Polygamy
Polygyny
Group
Marriage
Polyandry

5. Selection of
Marriage Partner
Endogamy
Exogamy Levirate
Sororate

6. Family Structures
Based on Internal
Organization or
Membership
Based on Descent
Based on Residence
Based on Authority

7. Based on Internal Organization or Membership
 Nuclear Family
A unit of family consisting a couple and their children.
 Extended Family
A family unit consist of a nuclear family plus one or
more relatives living together.
 Conjugal family
Includes only the husband, the wife, and unmarried
children who are not of age.
 Consanguineal Family
Consist only the parents and his or her children and
other people.

8. Based on Descent
Patrilineal Descent
Affiliates a person with the group of relatives through
his or her father.
 Matrilineal Descent
Affiliates a person with the group of relatives related
through his or her mother.
Bilateral Descent
Affiliates a person with the group of relatives related
through both his or her parents.

9. Based on Residence
 Patrilocal Residence
Requires that the newly married couple live with or near
the domicile of the parents of the bride’s groom.
 Matrilocal Residence
Requires that the newly married couples live with or near
the domicile of the parents of her bride.
 Bilocal Residence
Gives a couple a choice of staying with either the groom’s
or bride’s parents.
 Neolocal Residence
Residence permits the newly married couple to reside
independently of the parents of either groom or bride.
 Avunculocal Residence
Prescribe that the newly married with or near the maternal
uncle of the groom

10. Based on the Authority
 The Patriarchal Family
Is one which the authority is vested in the oldest male in
the family, often the father.
 The Matriarchal Family
Is one which the authority is vested in the mother or the
mother’s kin.
 The Egalitarian Family
Is one in which the husband and the wife exercise a more
or less equal amount of authority.
 The Matricentic Family
Is a recently Emerged type usually found in the
suburb of the United States.

11. Functions of Family
Regulates sexual behaviour
and is the unit of
reproduction.
Performs the function of
biologic maintenance.
Chief agency for
socializing the child.
Gives its member a
status.
Important mechanism for
social control.
Performs economic
function, especially in
simple societies.

12. Structural Characteristic of Filipino Family
 The basic social units in the Philippine society are the nuclear family which
includes the father, mother ,and children, and bilaterally extended kinship
group, which embraces all relatives of the father and mother.
 The Christian Filipino has a often been describe as a large family group,
usually including three generations in the same home, that extended
family in terms of membership.
 Among the Filipino Muslim the more common type is the joint family.
 The Filipino family is said to be a patriarchal in authority . Studies made by
the sociologist and anthropologist reveal that the Filipino family is not
patriarchal nor was it’s so in the egalitarian.
 The Filipino family is bilateral in terms of reckoning descent and social
allocation.
 In terms of residence the Filipino family may be said to be bilocal and
neolocal.

13. Courtship and Marriage
Courtship and Marriage are the culmination of the
development that has taken place throughout the first
eighteen to twenty years of life. Courtship allows to
practice in a limited way the roles and virtues necessary in
marriage. Marriage permits them to practice the roles and
virtues necessary in eternal life. In the proper courtship
the partners recognize that their first responsibilities are
to encourage each other in righteous behaviour and to
sustain and support each other in righteous desires and
ambitions.

14. Social Change and the Filipino Family
The Philippine is undergoing many changes. These have been
brought about by many factors which had profound effects on the
family. Among them are the geographical mobility, increasing
population, increasing industrialization and urbanization, the idea of
the universal education, the changed status and role of the Filipino
women, The diffusion of the mass media.
These changes brings about conflicts in the values and mores,
which may turns bring about social problems. And there is n
gainsaying the fact that the problems beset the Filipino family today.
Among these are conflict in the families, separation and desertion,
abortion, illegitimacy, prostitution, the youth problem, juvenile
delinquency, Drug abuse, and their likes. The extent of the problems is
difficult to ascertain.