1. Family - What images come to mind?.
Where do you get these images from?
What is “ideal”?
What influences this?

2. Family Types Single person Nuclear Single parent Extended Couple
Legal guardian
Adoptive
Foster
Blended

3. Single person Benefit: Challenge: Have a lot of freedom
Time to devote to career and interests
Their income is their own
May live alone
Challenge:
Income may be an issue
May have periods of loneliness
Esp if no family around
May have a roommate

4. Nuclear Couple and their children Focus on the children Benefits:
Parents share childcare responsibility
Children have support of both parents
Challenges:
making time for themselves,
balancing family and work

5. Single parent
One or more children living in a house hold headed by one parent
May result from death or divorce
Fastest growing
Divorce
Having children without marriage
Live with lower income
Biggest challenge
Managing ALL the responsibilities of family life
Time and energy
Finding opposite sex role model

6. Extended
Family with a relative living with them – aunt, uncle, grandparent, cousin
Tough economic time, families may move in with grandparents
Challenge:
Getting along with relatives
Establishing clear lines of authority
Benefit:
Family bonds
More resources

7. Couple Husband and wife Number of these households is increasing
People are delaying children
Challenge:
Career conflict
Benefit:
Income
Focus on each other

8. Blended A couple and one or more children from a previous relationship
One parent becomes a stepparent
Challenge:
Blending personalities
Change in rules?
Adjusting to new styles

9. Legal guardian
A person who has financial and legal responsibility for a child

10. Adoptive Couple legally adopts child Challenge:
No biological link to parents
Challenge:
Child (if older) needs to adjust to new family
Parents may worry about biological parents wanting child back

11. Foster
Placing a child in the temporary care of a family other than its own as the result of problems or challenges that are taking place within the birth family
Benefits:
Can be very rewarding
Giving a child stable home
Challenge:
Child has difficult problems
Becoming attached to child who will eventually leave

12. Family or not?

13. Family - Nuclear

15. Family - adoptive

17. Family - Extended

19. Family - blended

21. Family - couple

23. Family – single person

25. Family – single parent

27. Not – but…..

29. Family – single parent

31. Family - couple

32. Family Clothesline activity
Family-Clothesline-Structure-Activity.pdf