1. Functions of the Family

2. Meeting Basic Physical Needs
Food, clothing and shelter
Safety and health: putting bandage on cut, giving medicine when sick

3. Meeting Intellectual Needs
Family is the child’s first teacher
What does a child learn from the family?
Learn how to do work they will perform as adults
Family encourages child’s success in school

4. Meeting Social and Emotional Needs
In a family, you have the opportunity to love and to be loved
Care and cared for
Help others and be helped
Learn how to get along
How to share/take turns
Work together towards a goal

5. Preparing Children for Society
By learning to live with a family, we prepare to live with others in society
Pass on values in 3 ways:
Through example: how the treat others
Through talking: telling a toddler not to hit or a teen about respect
Through religious training: morality
Family introduces child to society’s culture