The document discusses the definition and types of families. It defines family as the oldest social institution and the basic unit of society. The main types of families discussed are nuclear, blended, step, single, extended, single-parent, adopted, childless, and foster families. The document also examines the functions of families in socializing children, fulfilling economic needs, and providing emotional support. Family systems concepts and the family life cycle model are introduced.

4. • Family is a complex social phenomenon. It
is the oldest natural community of people
bound by blood.

5. • This is a small contact group of people who
interact with each other, a special form of
interaction.
• A special social institution that regulates
reproduction rights through a special system
of roles, norms, and organizational forms.

6. • Family plays a special role in the history of
human society. She serves it as a carrier of
"social continuity". Family is the most
important social institution is the whole
system of relationships: marriage and
family, economic and legal, ethical and
psychological..

7. • Because family plays a man not only as a
biological being, but as a citizen, because it
primarily is socialization. The whole set of
major problems related to family, studies
such a special sociological theory as the
sociology of the family

8. • Family is the basic social institutions from
which other social institutions have grown
and developed. In producers, slaves and
other servants as well as for the members
connected by a common descent or blood
relation. The word “Family” has derived
from a Roman word “Famulus” which
means servantssanctions.

9. • In other words, the family primarily and
mainly carries out the socialization of new
members of society. Socialization is the
process of identity formation, training and
learning and individual values, norms,
attitudes, behavioral patterns specific to the
society, as well as community groups.

10. The Different Types of
Families;
Nuclear
Blended
Step
Single
Extended
Single parent
Unrelated
Adopted
Childless
Foster

11. NUCLEAR FAMILY
The Most Common Type of
Family in Today’s American
Society.

12. Nuclear Families
Biological
mom & dad
with kids
►Traditional or Nuclear
Consists of a mother, father, and one
or more children.

13. Blended Families
A family in which
both spouses
have children
from previous
relationships

14. Step Families
Families that
include
children from
a previous
relationship

16. Adopted Families
Families
that include
children
that are not
biologically
theirs

17. Single Families
An
individual
living
alone

18. Single Parent Families
Children who
live with one
parent
►Single parent
Includes only one parent, the mother
or the father, who lives with the children.
Single parents may be divorced,
widowed, unwed, or abandoned.

19. Extended Families
Families that
include relatives
other than parents
and children
►Extended
Is made up of nuclear or single-parent
families plus other relatives such as
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

20. Childless
Families
Families
with no
children

21. Foster Parent Families
Families
who take in
children
temporarily
►Foster
Includes parents who provide full-time
child care for someone else’s child for a
designated period of time.

22. Types of Family w r to Lineage

23. • Patriarchy is a social system in which
males hold primary power and predominate
in roles of political leadership, moral
authority, social privilege and control of
property. In the domain of the family,
fathers or father-figures hold authority over
women and children.

24. • According to the Oxford English Dictionary
(OED), matriarchy is a "form of social
organization in which the mother or oldest
female is the head of the family, and
descent and relationship are reckoned
through the female line; government or rule
by a woman or women."

25. Family Challenges
 Communication
 Intimacy
 Organization

26.  Boundaries
 Relationships
 Trust
Family Challenges conti…

27.  Acceptance
 Spending time together
 Roles
Family Challenges conti…

28. Functions of Families
1.Reproduction
To carry out
humanity and
survival of
man.

30. 2.Socialization –
Transmit culture,
values to next
generation.
Functions of Families conti…..

31. Functions of Families
continued…..
3. Economic Cooperation
Fulfill survival needs of
family as a unit.
•Food
•Clothing
•Shelter

32. Functions of Families
continued…..
4. Emotional
Security –
•Shape personalities,
• provide comfort
• and reassurance.

33. Family System Concepts
The system tries to be in it’s own balance.
Some systems are healthy (functional) and some are
unhealthy (dysfunctional).
Families have rules, spoken or unspoken.
Each person has a role in the system.
Systems include boundaries.
Some systems are open and some are closed.
There are different types of connections between
individuals in a system.

34. Family Life Cycle
Stage Duration(years)
Newly married, no children 2
Families with infants 2.
Families with preschool children 3.

35. Stage Duration(years)
Families with school children 7
Families with teenagers 7
Families as “launching centers” 11

36. Stage Duration(years)
Empty nest families ~11
Families with retired or aging 11-15
members