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Chapters 10,11,12. By : Ricky Barela Health Education. Nice to have a family. Compare working families in the US today to a typical family 50 years ago? Are they the same or did they change?
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Chapters 10,11,12 By : Ricky Barela Health Education
Nice to have a family • Compare working families in the US today to a typical family 50 years ago? • Are they the same or did they change? • In the 1950’s, the father worked while the mother stayed home with the kids. Usually their were 3 to 4 kids in a house hold. • Today only 10% of the families are like this WHY?
How did Family Change? • Factors that have changed the American family: • Women in the work force- Women today have high paying successful jobs even at the high success rate as men. • Smaller family size- because of today’s society, family are probably 2 kids per household. • Post-poning marriage and parenthood- Many couples are putting off marriage or deciding its best to not have children at the current time. • Divorce Rate( which leads to single parents)- Divorce Rate goes up every year.
What kinds of family are there? • Types of Families: • Nuclear Family- Traditional family with a father and mother and children(yay). This type of family is about 1/3 of america today. • Single Parent Family- Only 1 parent lives with the children. 90% of this type is headed up by the mother(1/2 of all today will live for a time in a single parent family: 60% of children that live with a single mom are living in poverty with low education.
Continue… • List ways that single parent family forms • Divorce • Death of a parent • Parent never marry • Adoption • Any others you can think of? • Blended Family- When Single Parents remarries. one biological parent and one step parent with one or both of their children( 80% of divorces remarry).
Continue… • Foster Family- An adult or couple provide care and a home for children whose biological parents are unable to care for them • Extended Family- This family is made up of Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and grandparents who live together and all share responsibility for raising the children.
Families Should…. Three family responsibilities: • Provide love and support • Raise the children • Share household responsibilities- Cook, clean, bills, laundry,
Talk to me… • Communication, HONEST COMMUNICATION, is the most important factor that makes family life function smoothly. Arguments and fighting amongst each other are part of a normal conversation. • In the 1950’s, children spent on average of 3 to 4 hours a day actively involved with members of the family. • In 2000 that time was cut down to 30 minutes, but teens spend 3 to 4 hours on average a day watching TV.
EHARMONY.COM(LOL) • Dating- opportunities to develop social skills, such as communication and interacting with a person of the opposite sex, or at least that how it was. • There are some advantages to dating: • Provides you with the opportunity to get to know yourself. • Recognize your strengths and weaknesses • Helps to learn about members of the opposite sex • Helps to develop communication skills and decisions making skills
Continue… • Marriage- 95% of all Americans will marry someone in their life, ½ of them will end in divorce. • Some of the reasons for getting married are: • Because we are in love( awww) • Because we are pregnant • To escape problems at home • For $$$$ reasons • To stay in the country
Teenage pregnancy • Teenagers have the ability to create new life. Sexual responsibility in a relationship is important and ground rules need to be discussed and layed out (excuses for having sex like drinking/drugs. Teenage pregnancy rate in the US is the highest in the developed world. • One Million teenage girls are pregnant each year. 500,000 births/500,000 miscarriage or abortions 85% of the pregnancy are unwanted or unplanned. 29 states have mandatory parental involvement for abortion.
Continue… • Teen pregnancy has declined regularly since 1900? Why • Reasons for the decline: • Less youth having sex • Use of contraception( you have a 90% chance of getting pregnant if you don not use contraception over one year.
Continue… • Reasons why youth abstain from intercourse • Moral or Religious Reasons • Have not met the right one yet • Avoid Pregnancy and STD’s ( 3 million Kids get STD’s yearly)