CHAPTER 8: JOURNEYING BACK TO ONE’S FAMILY:

The Filipino Family in Retrospect

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Learning Objectives: At the end of the topic the learner will be able to:

 LO 1:
 LO 2: Explain the salient meaning of classification, functions and
developmental task of the family
 LO 3
 LO 4

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 WHAT IS THE FAMILY

 the basic unit of social institution in the society and the community
 it is a social group characterized by common residence and
reproduction, compose adult of both sexes and their children, owned
or adopt. (Murdock)
 an agency playing a vital role in the development of one’s personality
and in the process of values formation and development
 a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood or adoption,
constituting a single household, interacting and communicating with
each other in their respective social roles and creating and
maintaining a common culture (Burgess and Locke)

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 CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
1. According to organization and membership
A. NUCLEAR FAMILY
Two kinds of Nuclear Family:
 Family orientatio
 Family procreation – established by the person by marriage.
Two types of families may be derived from this classification:
B. EXTENDED FAMILY
- Two or more nuclear families related to each other economically and socially
Two kinds of Extended Family:
 Conjugal family – considers spouse and children as prime importance (marriage bond)
 Consanguineal family – considers nucleus of blood relatives as more important than spouse

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 CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
2. According to place of residence
A. PATRILOCAL FAMILY
– newly-wed couple live with near the residence of the parents of the groom.
B. MATRILOCAL FAMILY
– newly-wed couple live with near the residence of the parents of the bride.
C. BILOCAL FAMILY
– provides newly-wed couple freedom to select where to resides (near the groom/brides family)
D. NEOLOCAL FAMILY
– permits newly-wed couple to reside independently of their parents
E. AVULOCAL FAMILY
– newly couple reside with near the maternal uncle of the groom

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 CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY

3. According to descent

A.PATRILINEAL TO DESCENT

– affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him through his father

B. MATRILINEAL DESCENT

– affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him through his mother.

C. BILATERAL DESCENT

– affiliates a person with a group with a group of kinsmen related to him through his father
and mother

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 CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY

4. According to authority
A. PATRIARCHAL FAMILY
– authority is vested in the oldest member (male), often the father
B. MATRIARCHAL FAMILY
– authority is vested in the mother or the mothers kin
C. EQUALITARIAN FAMILY
– husband and wife exercise a more or less equal amount of authority
D. MATRICENTRIC FAMILY
– absence of the father (i.e. working abroad) gives mother a dominant position in the family
however, father shares with mother in terms of decision-making

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 CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY

5. According to form of marriage

A. MONOGAMY
– permits man to have only one spouse at a time

B. POLYGAMY
– plural marriage; assumes any of the following:
polygyny, polyandry and group marriage

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 FUNCTIONS OF THE FAMILY

– The family is the unit of reproduction

– It performs the function of biological maintenance.

– The family socializes the members.

– It provides status to the members.

– It serves as an important mechanism for social control.

– The family serves as the first and foremost school where every child learn the major
lessons in life.

– It performs such other functions to meet the material and economic, religious and social.

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 FAMILY DEVELOPMENTAL TASK

The following are the functional prerequisites/tasks of the family:

1. Physical maintenance
– providing shelter, food, clothing,
2. Allocation of resources
– meeting family needs and costs,
3. Division of labor
– assigning responsibility
4. Socializing the family members
– guiding internalization of increasing maturity

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 FAMILY DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
5. Reproduction, recruitment,
– bearing children and rearing them for release at maturity, incorporating new
members by marriage and establishing policies for inclusion of others:
6. Maintenance of order
– providing means of communication, establishing types and intensity of interaction, patterns of
affection
7. Placement of members in the larger society
– fitting into the community, relating to church, school, organizational life, political and
economic systems,
8. Maintenance of motivation and morale
– rewarding members for achievements, satisfying individual needs for acceptance,
encouragement and affection meeting personal

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REFERENCES/TEXTBOOK/LINKS

• file:///C:/
Users/flore/Downloads/pdf-journeying-back-to-one-family_compress.pdf

• file:///C:/Users/flore/Downloads/Handout_4_in_VED_101.docx.pdf

• file
:///C:/Users/flore/Downloads/Journeying_Back_To_Ones_Familuy.pptx%20(1).
pdf

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