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Understanding Family Dynamics: Types, Functions & Challenges

Explore the various types of families, functions they serve, and common stresses they face. Learn how to reduce family stress and promote healthy relationships.

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Understanding Family Dynamics: Types, Functions & Challenges

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  1. Chapter 3 The Family

  2. Family • Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption who live together. or Two or more people who have chosen to live together and share interests, roles, and resources. • Each family is unique in its style and makeup, with attachment and commitment binding members together.

  3. Family Functions • Goals • Growth and development of its members • Survival and personal fulfillment • Establishment of values and governing rules • Functions • Physical maintenance • Protection • Nurturance • Socialization and education • Reproduction • Recreation

  4. Family Types • The Nuclear or ConjugalFamily—also known as the traditional family, consists of a husband, a wife, and their children. • The ExtendedFamily—consists of the nuclear family plus grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins living together under the same roof. • The Single-ParentFamily—consists of an adult living with one or more children. In most cases, single parents are divorced, separated, or widowed. • The Blended or ReconstitutedFamily—is created when one or both partners bring children from a previous marriage into the relationship.

  5. Family Types (continued) • The CohabitativeFamily—a man and woman choose to live together without the legal bonds of matrimony, but in all other ways this type of family resembles the nuclear or blended family. • The CommunalFamily—consists of a group of people who have a common philosophy, value system, and goals and who choose to live together, sharing roles and resources. • The Foster or AdoptiveFamily—those who take temporary responsibility for raising a child other than their own. • Lesbian or GayFamily—two women or two men, with or without children.

  6. Family Stages • Couple stage • Childbearing stage • Grown-child stage • Older family stage

  7. Factors That Affect the Family • Family size • Birth order • Gender of children

  8. Family Patterns • In the authoritarian family or autocratic family, parents usually make all decisions. • The authoritative or democratic family offers its members choices and encourages participation and individual responsibility. • The permissive or laissez-faire family offers its members complete freedom.

  9. Functional vs. Dysfunctional Families • Functional families • Foster growth and development • Promote physical and social well-being • Meet members needs • Maintain stability • Promote individuality • Dysfunctional families • Unable to offer stability • Have poor interpersonal skills • Unable to deal with stresses

  10. Common Family Stresses • Financial problems • Parenting concerns and conflicts • Illness • Death • Divorce • Lack of time • Unequal distribution of roles

  11. Chapter Challenge • Name three family types • A. • B. • C. • List common family stresses • Describe measures to lessen family stress

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