The document outlines the definition, purpose, and various structures of families, including traditional, blended, extended, symmetrical, and single-parent families. It also discusses family classification based on descent, authority, residence patterns, and marital structures. Additionally, it examines the influences of industrialization, divorce, class, and state benefits on family structures.

3. *Family
*A group consisting of parents and children living together
in a household.
*Basic social unit.
*People living together living by ties of marriage, blood
or adaption.
 According to functionalist George Murdock a family is
defined as “a social group characterized by common
residence, economic co-operation and reproduction. It
includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain
a socially approved sexual relationship and one or more
children, own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults.”

4. It is not flesh and blood but the heart
which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller

5. PURPOSE of

6. *To perpetuate the
springs by
providing the
union of male and
female to produce
offspring.

7. *To assure their nature and training
within a given society.

8. *To satisfy respective emotional
needs

9. *To provide for economic needs.

10. There are various types of family that exist in today’s society, some of
the more common structures include :

11. Traditional Family
composed of parents & children in the
same household & characterized by the
gender roles.

12. Blended
(reconstituted families) occurs when
children from one or both spouses are
combined into one family; may also
included half-siblings if the couple has
other children.

13. Extended
consist of a nuclear family plus blood-related relatives sharing
common privileges & responsibilities within a household.
This is also known as the three generation family. Consisting of
grandparents, their children and their grandchildren.

14.  Consists of a mother
and father and their
child or children.
 this usually consists of
two generations of
family, parents and
their own or adopted
children residing in the
same household.

15.  Consists of a mother or father and their child or children .
 This type of family is also known as the Lone Parent Family.
It consists of one parent and a child or children residing in
one household.

16. *Reconstituted Family :
This is a family where one or more parents
have been married previously and they bring with
them children from their previous marriage(s).
This introduces various combinations of step-
father, step-mother etc.

17. Symmetrical Family
This family is one in which the roles
of the husband and wife or of co-habiting
partners have become more alike or equal.

18. Empty Nest Family
In this family, the children
have moved out of the home and
the parents reside together.

19. Cereal Packet Family
This type of family is usually
flouted as the ideal family type,
and as such is usually displayed on
cereal packets.

20. Foster parents
are people who
officially take a
child into their
family for a
period of time,
without
becoming the
child's legal
parents

21. Roles & responsibilities
of the Family Members

22. *
*Parents
it is the primary duty of the parents to
work in order to support the family for
their basic needs.
*Father
is the head of the family, he provides for
the family.
*Mother
manages the household chores and looks
after the welfare of each family
member.

23. *
*Children
helps parents in doing various household
chores or any duties you are capable of doing
and loving.
*Brother
helps the father in fixings things.
*Sisters
helps the mother in doing household chores.

24. Family
Classification

25. Family classification
Families can be classified according to the
various categories:
On the basis of descent
On the basis of authority
On the pattern of residence
On the amount of mates

26. On the basis of
Lineage
*Patrilineal Family
This type of family occurs when property
and title inheritance passes down through the
father’s side.
*Matrilineal Family
This is where the property and title
inheritance passes through the mother’s
side.

27. *Patriarchal –headed by a man
*Matriarchal – headed by a woman

28. ON THE BASIS OF
HEADSHIP
*Patriarchal Family
In this type of family, the father is
considered the head.
*Matriarchal Family
In this type of family, authority is held by
the mother.

29. On The Pattern Of
Residence
* Patrilocal :
When a married couple lives with or near
the husband’s family.
*Matrilocal :
When a couple lives with or near the
mother’s family.
*Neo-Local :
When a married couple sets up a home
separate from either side of their families.

30. *
*Monogamous Family : In this instance, a husband
only has one wife. This is the western idea of a
typical marriage.
*Polygamous Family : In this case, the husband has
more than one wife at the same time. This type of
family can be found mostly in Saudi Arabia.
*Polyandrous Family : This family consists of a
wife with more than one husband. This can be
found in the Todas of Southern India.

31. STRUCTURES
OF
A FAMILY

32. Influences on family
structure
 Industrialization
 Divorce
 Class
 State benefits

33. *INDUSTRIALIZATION
The industrialization era is where the
society moved from an agrarian one to a
mechanized one. According to Talcott Parsons
the industrialization era brought with it increased
geographical and social mobility, resulting in the
break down of the extended family to the
privatized nuclear family.

34. *As divorce became socially acceptable and
the government began providing financial
assistance to single parents, many families broke
up. Due to this, more single parent families were
formed as well as reconstituted ones.

35. *
Class highly influences the family structure, as
those with low incomes tend to have a higher divorce
rate due to financial conflicts.
Lower class families are usually matrifocal or
single parent and tend to contribute to the financial and
social instability of the society, as the financial
responsibilities now fall on the one parent due to the
withdrawal of the contribution of the other parent.
Middle class families tend to have less kids than
lower class ones although there is more financial
stability.
Higher class families have an average of one or
two children, thus making most higher class families
nuclear ones.

36. *
Since the state began granting benefits to
pregnant teenagers and single mothers, there has
been a marked emergence of single parent
families as less people are encouraged to get
married to seek economic support as it is
provided by the state.

37. *
 Charmaine DG. Celestial
BTFT-3C
Partido State University