the family: characteristics and types
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Family types, Family CharacteristicsTRANSCRIPT
The Family:
• Family is the basic social unit. Family represents people living together by ties of marriage, blood or adaptation, thus representing a single household. According to sociology, the family has the primary function of reproducing society; biologically, socially, or both.
Characteristics of Family:
• Universality: • Emotional basis: • Limited size: • Formative influence: • Nuclear position in the social structure: • Responsibility of the members: • Social regulation:
Types of Family Structures
extended family
nuclear family
Single-parent familysingle-dad (n.)single-mom (n.)
Blended family
1. nuclear family
2. extended family
3. Single-parent family
4. Blended family
5. Childless family
a family group with 3 or more generations in a family.
A mother or father alone raising children.
Two divorced people marry, bring with them children from the old families.
A couple with no kids.
a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children.
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