Pesonal

D e v e lo p m e nt
Quarter 2 – Module 4
FAMILY
STRUCTU
RE
&
What I Need to
Know?
It is a known fact that one’s family has a
great impact on an individual's personal
development. For most of us, Family is just
a group of familiar people doing what they
always do. Most children take for granted
their family’s ways, and they carry into
adulthood numerous attitudes and
behaviors acquired in childhood.
What I Need
to Know?
Learning family history and genealogy enhances one’s
identity and the perception of self by allowing one to
connect their past with their present. There is healing
value of looking back at life in order to come to terms
with experiences and integrating various aspects of a
lifetime. Keep in mind that by accomplishing the activity
in this module, it may also open a door to help you
prevent illnesses that have been ignored in the past
because none of the family members knows about it.
LEARNING
.

COMPITENCIES
Appraise one’s family structure and the type of care
he/she gives and receives, which may help in
understanding himself/herself better. EsP-
PD11/12FSL-IId-11.1
Make a genogram and trace certain physical,
personality, or behavioral attributes through
generation. EsP-PD11/12FSL-IId-e-11.2
Understanding Family and
Traditional Family
Structure
According to functionalist George
Murdock, a family is defined as “a social
group characterized by common
residence, economic cooperation and
reproduction.  It includes adults and
both sexes, at least two of whom
maintain a socially approved sexual
relationship and one or more children,
own and adopted of the sexually
cohabiting adults.”
Take note of the three
points that:
a. The concept of family is not necessarily
linked to the concept of marriage and it
is the social relationship between
individuals that is important, not the
legal framework to their relationship.
Take note of the three
points that:
b. Family groups can involve any number of adults who
maintain socially-approved sexual relationships.  This
means that families may involve a number of men
related to a single woman (or vice versa) and the
"sexual relationship" does not necessarily have to be
heterosexual (between people of the opposite sex),
since children may be adopted into the family group.

c. The family group involves both adults and children. This

means, presumably, that a husband and wife, for
example, who do not produce children are not considered
to be a family.
Traditional
. Family Structure

is considered a family support system which involves

two married individuals providing care and stability
for their biological offspring.
 TYPES OF FAMILY
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 TYPES OF FAMILY
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1 NUCLEAR
FAMILY
↠ Nuclear family, also called elementary family, in sociology and anthropology, a
group of people who are united by ties of partnership and parenthood and
consisting of a pair of adults and their socially recognized children. Typically, but
not always, the adults in a nuclear family are married. Although such couples
are most often a man and a woman, the definition of the nuclear family has
expanded with the advent of same-sex marriage. Children in a nuclear family
may be the couple’s biological or adopted offspring.
↠ In other words, it consists of two generations of family members living in the
same household.
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EXTENDED
FAMILY
2
↠ This type of family structure generally
consists of three or more generations
living in the same household or very
close proximity. The usual name for this
type of family is vertically extended
group because the extensions of the
basic family group are intergenerational
(that is between generations - they
involve grandparents rather than uncles
or aunts).
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 3 STEP-FAMILIES
↠ One consequence of high rates of divorce and
remarriage, or cohabitation, is an increase in the
number of families headed by step-mothers and
step-fathers. This type of family is usually nuclear
in form and involves parents, children of either
spouse from a first marriage and, possibly,
children from their present marriage.
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 SINGLE PARENT
FAMILY
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↠This can be either a father or a mother
who is individually responsible for the
raising of a child. The child can be by birth
or adoption. They may be a single parent
by choice or by life circumstances.
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5 ADOPTIVE
FAMILY
↠ An adoptive family is a family who has welcomed a child born
to another into their family and legally adopted that child as
their own. After the adoption is complete, the child’s name
often changes to the name their adoptive family has selected
for them, and that child legally becomes a part of their family,
just as if they have been born into it. The adoptive family can
vary in age, race, nationality, and gender. You may not be able
to spot an adoptive family unless there are clear racial
differences, as adoptive families are very much your normal
family unit.
↠ Generally speaking, it is a family where one or more of the
children has been adopted. Any structure of family may also be
an adoptive family.
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 BLENDED
FAMILY
6
↠A family that consists of members
from two or more previous
families.
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CONDITIONALLY
SEPARATED
FAMILY
↠ A conditionally separated family is when one
of the family members is separated from the
family due to circumstances, but still are an
integral, significant member of the family.
Some examples of said 'circumstances' may
be serving in the military, being incarcerated,
hospitalization, or having a job far away.
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 FOSTER 8
↠ A family that provides legal custody or
FAMILY
guardianship for children whose parents are
dead or unable to look after them in a period
of time (temporarily).
↠ Foster parents are people who officially take a
child into their family for a period of time,
without becoming the child's legal parents.
The child is referred to as their foster child.
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 GAY or LESBIAN
9 FAMILY
↠ A family consists of same-sex parents and a child or children. It is difficult
to obtain an accurate count of same-sex parent families because many
lesbians and gay men are not open about their sexual orientation due to
fears of discrimination, such as loss of employment, loss of child custody,
and antigay violence. There is not a “usual” gay family. Some same-sex
couples may decide to have a child within their relationship, while others
may bring children from previous heterosexual or same-sex unions. The
rise in same-sex parenting is partially due to the increase in options
available for same-sex couples to become parents. Although most
children of same-sex couples are biological children of one of the parents,
a growing number are the result of donor insemination, surrogacy, foster
care and adoption.
OTHER TYPES OF
FAMILY
BI-RACIAL or MULTI- 10
RACIAL FAMILY
Multiracial families are those consisting of parents of different races and
their biracial/multiracial offspring. Parents of the same race who adopt a
child outside of their race also comprise multiracial families. It is important
to note that multiracial families are determined by the race, not the
ethnicities, of their members.
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FAMILY
Transracial adoption, or interracial adoption, describes any situation in
which a family adopts a child of a different race. With changes in cultural
norms, transracial adoption has become more and more common over
the years, as many adoptive parents no longer feel the need to adopt a
child who “looks like them,” whether that child is born domestically or
internationally.
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IMMIGRANT
FAMILY
Immigrant families have been defined rather broadly as
families that have one or more members who moved from
another country: it may include only one member or both
members of the couple (or a lone parent), and all, a few,
or none of the children, as some may stay behind and
others are born in the host country.
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 Family migration is the term used to categorize the migration of people
who migrate due to new or established family ties, and it encompasses
several sub-categories: reunification with a family member who
migrated earlier (a person with subsidiary protection is also entitled to
(re)unite with family members); family accompanying a principal
migrant; marriage between an immigrant and a citizen; marriage
between an immigrant and a foreigner living abroad; and international
adoptions.
Acknowledging whatever family you have does
not only provide connections but more of a
reminder of where you came from, and you
may make an effort on becoming a better
person than who you were yesterday.  It is of
great importance nowadays, that even young
as you are, should know how to trace your
genealogy or family history/genogram because
of the changing perceptions of families or
households and how it evolved.
HOW DO FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS
BECOME MORE DIVERSE? 
In the 1950’s, the ‘traditional nuclear family’ was much more common. Since then, the
nuclear family has declined and other family households types increased: 

The ‘main types’ of family which have
‘replaced’ the nuclear family:
•Reconstituted families
•Divorce-extended families
•Single parent families
•Single person households
•LAT relationships (Living Apart Togeter)
•Multigenerational households
•The modified extended family
•Shared households/ families of choice
Other forms of increasing family diversity
•There are more cohabiting rather than married
couples
•There is more cultural (‘ethnic’) diversity
•There are more openly same-sex couples and
families
•There is greater ‘organizational diversity’: of
gender roles
•There is greater ‘life-course diversity’
•More adults are continuing to live with their
parents
GENOGRA
Mtree that displays detailed data on
↠ a graphic representation of a family

relationships among individuals.

Genograms are used in a variety of
fields, such as medicine, psychology,
social work, genealogy, genetic
research, and education. They
contain a wealth of information on
the families represented.
GROUP 8
ALBONIA, JADE LORENZ M.
POBLETE, JULIUS
ENERO, CZARINAH L.
THANK
YOU