Family is the basic unit of society and provides emotional, cognitive, physical, social, and spiritual development for its members. It consists of individuals who work together to overcome life's challenges through permanent love, harmony, and by aiding one another's upbringing. Families undergo stages in their life cycle from the beginning with a bride and groom, to expanding with daily family routines and stresses, to contracting in the empty nest period. Families are also classified by their authority structure as patriarchal, matriarchal, or egalitarian, and by their organization as nuclear, extended, or household.

1. What is Family?

2. Family – The Basic Unit of Society the
Nucleus of our behavior
- Made up of individuals who give
extra effort t work on each other’s total
development: EMOTIONAL, COGNITIVE,
PHYSICAL, SOCIAL and SPIRITUAL.

3. The member should be able to work
together to overcome the challenges of
life. The family should be kindled with
permanent love and harmony.
Good upbringing of the member of
the family aids in maintaining a peaceful
and orderly society.
Family is a great influence
On a macro and a micro
Perspective.

4. House – Where the family resides
Two Aspects of a Home-
“Physical and Spiritual”

5. The Families undergoes three
major stages in life cycle.
1.The beginning Family- Bride and
groom
2.The expanding Family – Includes the
daily routine of family life. Stress
point will trigger at this stage.
3.The contracting Family- The
emptynest period.

6. The classification of families
*According to degree of authority
1.Patriarchal family
2.Matriarchal family
3.Egalitarian family

7. *According to Structural Organization
1.Nuclear family
2.Extended family
3.Household

8. LAS TIME