This document provides information about different family structures and types. It begins by discussing how Filipino culture values close interpersonal relationships that feel like family. It then lists various family structures like nuclear, extended, single-parent, blended, adoptive, and immigrant families. The document provides activities for students to reflect on their own family structure and what makes their family unique. It concludes with a short reading about a doctor helping a worried father's son in the operating room, emphasizing the importance of caring for all people.

1. Lesson 1
FAMILY STRUCTURES AND
STRUCTURES AND
LEGACIES

2. What's In
Personal and social relationships are seen
as a strong social context in Philippine
society. We basically try to make our
friendship and community intofamily-like
relationships that are shared and supported.
As Filipinos, we prefer to have smooth
interpersonal relationships with one another
and go out of our way to create an
environment in which everyone around us
feels comfortable and accepted.

3. ACTIVITY 1
1.How do my parents and other members of the
family impose authority and freedom over
you?
2. What role does my family play in your
education and holistic development?

4. Readings: What makes a family... Family?
Family refers to a group of individuals living together
under the same roof and usually under one head. It also
refers to two or more persons who share resources,
responsibility, values, goals, and commitment over time.
Moreover, a family is the basic unit of society.
Types of Family:
1. Nuclear or traditional family a family consisting of a father, that
consists of a father, mother, mother and children/s.

5. 2. Extended family a familychildren/s,
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins that
areliving under one roof.
3. Single parents - It is a father or a mother who is
taking care of or raising the children/s.
4. Blended Family - a family with a combination of
another family.
5. Step Family - two families brought together due
to divorce, separation, and remarriage

6. 6. Single Parent Family - This can be either a father or a mother who is
singly responsible for the raising of the child.
7. Adoptive family a family that adopts one or more children that the
parent/s considered as their offspring.
8. Bi-racial or multi-racial family - this refers to a family where every
family member belongs to a different cultural or ethnic group.
9. Trans-racial adoptive family - refers to a family where the parents
adopted a child that has a different racial group with them
10. Conditionally separated families is a family where a family member
is living away from the rest of the family due to employment,
hospitalization, military service but remains a significant member of
the family..

7. 11. Foster Family - A family where one or more of the children is
temporarily living in the same household for a short period.
12. Gay or Lesbian Family - refers to one or both of the parent's
sexual orientation is gay or lesbian. This family could be a two-
parent family, an adoptive family, a single- parent family, or an
extended family.
13. Immigrant Family This refers to a family where parentsmigrated to
another country but not necessarily that the childrenare migrants.
14. Migrant Family - This refers to a family that regularly moves to
different places for employment purposes.

8. Activity 2. Where Do I belong?
Directions: You just discovered the different types of family. In
your journal notebook, answer the following questions.
1.What kind of family do you belong to?
2. How would you describe your family?
3. What is the difference between your family to that of others?
4. What makes your family unique?

9. What's More
Reading: A Love for Fellowmen and Family
A doctor entered the hospital in a hurry after being
called for immediate operation. He answered the
phone call ASAP and go directly to the operating room.
He met the boy's father waiting for him. On seeing him,
the father says: "Why did you take all this time to
come? Don't you know that my son's life is in danger?
Don't you have any sense of responsibility?

10. The doctor was just calm and said: "I am sorry, I
wasn't in the hospital and I came as fast as I can after
receiving the call... And now, I hope you'd calm down
so that I can do my work." "Calm down? What if your
son was in this room right now, can you make it calm
down? If your son dies now what will you do?" said
the father angrily.
Genogram. is a graphical representation of a family
true that displays detailed relationship data among
individuals