1. Family Structures
Child and Family Mrs. Crusan

2. Family Structure Foldable
1. Title front flap “Family Structures” and add your name and class period in the bottom right corner.
2. As we view the power point fill in your foldable as instructed by Mrs. Crusan. Work from top flap towards the bottom and work from left to right on the divided flaps.

3. Family Structure Foldable

4. Family Types Single People Nuclear Blended Adoptive Couples
Single-Parent
Extended
Foster/Guardianship

5. Single person Not married and no children. Benefits: Challenges:
Have a lot of freedom
Time to devote to career and interests
Their income is their own
May live alone
Challenges:
Income may be an issue
May have periods of loneliness
Especially if no family around
May have a roommate

6. Couple Any married couple Benefits: Challenges:
Number of these households is increasing
People are delaying having children
Benefits:
Income
Focus on each other
Challenges:
Career conflict

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

8. Single parent
One or more children living in a household headed by one parent.
May result from death or divorce
Some adults choose to be a single parent
Many single parents enjoy the one on one relationship they share with their child(ren).
Biggest challenges:
Managing ALL the responsibilities of family life
Time and energy
Finding opposite sex role model

9. Team of Two

10. Blended
A couple and one or more children from a previous relationship and possibly children they have together.
Benefits:
Having a two parent family
Having siblings (may have been an only child).
Challenges:
Blending personalities
Change in rules from one household to another
Adjusting to new parenting styles

11. Not Broken

12. Extended
Family with a relative living with them – aunt, uncle, grandparent, cousin.
Tough economic times, families may move in with relatives to make ends meet.
Benefits:
Family bonds
More resources
Challenges:
Getting along with relatives
Establishing clear lines of authority

13. Adoptive Couple legally adopts child Benefits: Challenges:
Children made part of family by legal action, not born to the parents.
Exceptions- surrogacy, etc. when one part of the couple is the biological parent.
Benefits:
People who don’t have other options for becoming parents have the privilege.
Challenges:
Child (if older) needs to adjust to new family
Parents may worry about biological parents wanting child back

14. 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
Challenges:
Child has difficult problems
Becoming attached to child who will eventually leave
**Legal guardian-A person who has financial and legal responsibility for a child.

15. What Family Structure Are We?
On the first full flap number it #1-12.
As we look at the slides write the family structure you think you are seeing based on the picture you are seeing.

16. Nuclear

17. Adoptive

18. Extended

19. Single Parent

20. Blended

21. Couple

22. Single Person

23. Single Parent

24. Foster

25. Couple

26. Legal Guardian

27. Functions of the Family
For physical safety and shelter.
For love, affection, and emotional support.
For raising children in a stable setting.
For economic stability.
For comfort and support when family members become aged or ill.
To ensure that values are passed on from one generation to the next.

28. My Family Structure
USING REFERENCES AND EXAMPLES FROM OUR FAMILY STRUCTURES POWER POINT,THE MOVIE “THE POWER OF FAMILY” AND CHAPTER 3 OF YOUR FAMILIES TODAY TEXTBOOK (PGS 43-46), WRITE ONE TO TWO PARAGRAPHS DESCRIBING YOUR FAMILY STRUCTURE.
START FROM THE BEGINNING OF YOUR LIFE UNTIL NOW. MAKE SURE TO DESCRIBE ALL FAMILY STRUCTURES YOU HAVE HAD.

29. Writing Sample
When I was born I was born into a nuclear family. It was my dad, my mom, my two older sisters and 3 years after I was born, another baby sister. We lived together happily for many years.
When I was 14, my parents separated and my dad moved out of the house and began living with his girlfriend (the main reason my parents separated). My dad’s girlfriend had been married twice before and she had 6 biological kids and one stepson. My sisters and I stayed with my mom. I guess you could say it became a single-parent household, even though my dad was around a lot.
When all my sisters and I were grown and out of the house, my mom and dad finally got a divorce and my dad remarried. At this point we were a blended family even though all of us kids were adults.