Family definition, types, broken family

1. Family
It is a group of biologically related
persons living together and sharing
the common kitchen and purse

2. Household
 Biologically nonrelated persons, as
servants or any persons from the same
place of origin may also stay.

3. Family as a unit
 Social Unit:
Members have common physical and
social environment
 Biological Unit:
Members share common genes
 Cultural Unit:
It determines their attitude and behaviour

4. Family as a unit
 Fundamental Unit:
Of the nation for all practical purposes
 Epidemiological Unit:
To the health worker
 End Unit:
Where comprehensive social and health
care can be delivered

5. Family as a unit
 Consumer Unit:
At the base of the society

6. Family Pattern
 Family of origin: Where one
is born
 Family of procreation: setup
after marriage

7. Family Types
I Nuclear or Unitary or Single Family :
Married couples with their dependent
children
II Joint Family:
More than one married couple live with
their children
IIIThree generation family
Representation of the three generations live
together.

8. Stages of Family
Four stages (sometimes intermingle with
or overlap one another):
1. Stage of Formation:
Began with marriage
2. Stage of Growth:
Starts with birth of children

9. Stages of Family
3. Stage of retraction:
When grown-up children marry and
start their own family or migrate to
other places.
4. Stage of Disintegration:
Begins with the death of parents

10. Structure
 Head of Family (father)
 Mother (Mother figure)
 Juniors or children

11. Family Functions
A. Provide residence is the first function
(it may be paternal, maternal, or
independent)
B. Family maintains an Economic
Security
C. Division of Labour
D. Rearing and Upbringing of children
E. As a social and Cultural Bridge, it
transmits the Social values from one
generation to other

12. Family Functions
F. Care & Protection especially to children
& aged
G. Family regulates the Marital relations and
Sexual activities
H. Family act as a Buffer during the ups-
downs of the individual and collective
life.

13. Pathogenic Family Structure
1. : Discordant and Disturbed Families
(a) One or both of the parents is not gaining
satisfaction from the relationship and
 May express feelings of frustration and
disillusionment in hostile ways such as;
 Nagging, belittling &
 Doing things purposefully to annoy the other
person.
(b) Value differences.

14. Pathogenic Family Structure - Discordant and
Disturbed Families
Complications:
Children find difficult to establish and
maintain marital and other intimate
relationship.

15. Pathogenic Family Structure
2. Disturbed
 One or both of the parents behave in
grossly Eccentric or Abnormal ways
and may keep the home; in constant
Emotional Turmoil
(a) Parents who are fighting to maintain
their own equilibrium and are unable to
give the child needed love and
guidance;

16. Pathogenic Family Structure
2. Disturbed
(b) Gross irrationally in communication
patterns as well as faulty parental
models;
(c) Almost in vitality, the enmeshment of the
child in the emotional conflicts of the
parents.
I. Marital Schism
II. Marital Skew

17. Pathogenic Family Structure
2. Disturbed
I. Marital Schism:
Both parents are constantly embroiled in deep
seated conflict;
II. Marital Skew:
Healthier marital partner in the interest of
minimizing open disharmony, essentially
accepts and support the frequently bizarre
beliefs and behaviours of the spouse.

18. Pathogenic Family Structure
3. Disrupted
 Incomplete, whether as a result of death,
divorce, separation or some other
circumstance:- following effects
a. Traumatic effects on a child
b. Feeling of insecurity & rejection
 Absence of father has adverse effect on
the formation of a secure gender identity
for both girls and boys.

19. Pathogenic Family Structure
4. Inadequate Families:
 Inability to cope with the ordinary problems of
Family living
 It lacks the resources, physical or psychological
for meeting demands with which most families
can satisfactorily cope.
 The incompetence of such a family may stem
from immaturity, lack of education, mental
retardation, or other short coming of the parents.

20. Pathogenic Family Structure
4. Inadequate Families:
Effects:
 Cannot give its children the feeling of
safety and security they need or
 Adequately guide them in the
development of essential competencies

21. Pathogenic Family Structure
5. Ant-Social families
 Parents are overtly or covertly engaged in
behaviour that violates the standard and
interests of society (anti-social) and
 They may be chronically in difficulty with
the law.
 Such anti-social values usually handicap
relationship within the family, as well as
provide undesirable models for child.