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FAMILY ISSUES CHAPTER 1

MPU 2072 -FAMILY ISSUES

CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION TO FAMILY

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 20131How Do You Define Family?

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013Overview About Definition of FamilyThe definition of family over time has changed especially when you think of the ideal family which is the 1950's model. This is no longer expected and there are many different types of families such as blended family, serial fatherhood families, divorce is common and others.

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013Definition of family

Closely related people blood, marriage, adoption, live together.

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013Family MembersMembers of family have so many roles to play.In your family there are the roles that given to you by birth such as :Daughter/ sonSister / brotherNiece/nephewThamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013

5Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one. as time goes than roles that you choose as a ;Husband / wifeParentsWorker

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6Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one.

Family TypesTwo-parent biological familyParents and their biological childrenDefining factors: blood ties and marriageThis Leave It to Beaver family is no longer the norm.Only 12% of families fit this stereotype.


7Single-parent familyOne parent and one or more childrenNo involvement of other parentDeath, abandonment, single-parent adoptionPrimary parent familyMore than one parent takes responsibility for children, although usually unequal.


8Blended familyStepfamilyAdoptive familyExtended familyIntentional (or voluntaristic) familyCommitted partners


9Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one.Stages and Developmental in the Family Life Cycle

Stage 1: Beginning family

Married couple establish home but no children.Developmental Tasks: Establishing a satisfying home and marriage relationship and preparing for childbirth.

Stage 2: Childbearing FamilyFrom birth of 1st child until that child is 2 years oldDevelopmental Task: Adjusting to increased family size and providing a positive developmental environment

Stage 3: Family with PreschoolersOldest child is between 2 and 6Developmental tasks (DT): coping with demands on energy and attention with less privacy at home

Stage 4: Family with School ChildrenWhen oldest child is between ages of 6 and 13DT: Promoting educational achievement and fitting in with the community of families with school-age children

Stage 5: Family with TeenagersOldest child is between ages of 13 and 20DT: Allowing and helping children to become more independent

Stage 6: Launching CentreWhen oldest child leaves family until the youngest leaves homeDT: Releasing young adults and accepting new ways of relating to them; maintaining a supportive home base

Stage 7: Empty NestFrom time children are gone till couple retiresDT: Renewing and redefining marriage relationship; preparing for retirement years

Stage 8: Aging FamilyFrom retirement till death of the marriage partnerDT: Adjusting to retirement; coping with death and living alone.

Benefits living in family Family provides physical needs such as food, shelter, clothing and health care.Family can protect you from harmful or dangerous situation.Family can give you sense of belonging through the life long relationship that you have with your family members.( you always will be a sister , brother, aunty , uncle and others ).You share a lot of common things with them.


19Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one. Family can be source of love and affection.

Family can be source of encouragement and support.

Family can play an important role in socializing you in a manner of educating or teaching you how to behave in a way which is acceptable, provide you with value beliefs and custom of your particular family. Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013

20Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one.Trends in Familiesadoption becoming more commonfamilies are more equal in the sense of who makes the rules, women more equal to their spouseblended familiessingle parents cohabitation before marriage

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013Adoptionover time became more popularhusbands and their wives that couldn't have kids adoptedchildren left in the dark about being adopted until later ongrey market of adoption

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013Adoptionstage 2: children know they're adopted/ open adoptions.

stage 3: legitimate ways to adopt besides agencies past 20 years growth of international adoption have increased.

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013Reasons for changes in trends in families later marriage13% teen pregnancysame sex relationships adoption within those relationships8% interracial

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013college: adolescence; returning home ,leaving later, male more likely than female (25-29)Number of kids decreasing 1.9 children (during early 1900s more kids in rural areas to help with the farm and males especially important to take care of parents when they grow old)fictive kin: not actually blood related but considered family

Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013MASLOWS HIERARCHY AND FAMILIESThamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013

26Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one. Abraham Maslow a humanistic psychologist had given us a useful way to look at human needs.

Maslow classified human needs into five levels and he represented that in a form of pyramid.

According to Maslow human must satisfy their lower or basic needs in order to them to go the next level of their needs.Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013

27Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one.BUT HOW DOES MASLOWS THEORY AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIP ARE CONNECTED ..Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013

28Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one. Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013


30Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one.ISSUES IN NOWADAYS FAMILIESThamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013

31Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one.BEFORE WE GO FURTHERWHAT DO YOU THINK ONE OF THE COMMON ISSUE IN TODAYS FAMILIES.Thamil Selvi Dorasingam 2013

32Important to remember that most people experience life with one or more family types over time. These family types are NOT discreet. Many people belong (or have belonged) to more than one.

Changing DemographicsPeople continue to marry. 52% of households are married couplesMedian age: 25 years

Married couples account for 52% of U.S. households; 23.5% have children under 18 Median age for women at first marriage was 21 in 1975 and 25 in 1997 Median age for men was 26.5 in 1992 and 26.7 in 1997. The average length of a first marriage ending in divorce ranged from 7.3 years in 1975 to 6.9 years in 1980.More American marriages are likely to reach a 40th wedding anniversary than ever before!

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Changing DemographicsDivorce rate is stabilizing43% of first marriages end within15 years.Remarriage rates are dropping 5 out of 6 men and 3 out of 4 women eventually remarry after a first divorce. The mean length of time between divorce and remarriage is four years.

34The United States has the highest divorce rate in the world. 45% of US marriages end in divorce30% of Canadian marriages end in divorceHalf of these involve children.

At any given time, of American children and 1/5 of Canadian children live in single parent households

2/3 of divorced parents remarry of these end in a second divorce.

Changing DemographicsStepfamilies continue to increase through remarriage .One out of every three people is now a step parent, a stepchild, a step sibling, or some other member of a step family.

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Changing Demographics

The number of single-parent families continues to increase.Families continue to be constructedthrough adoption.scientific technologies

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Economic IssuesTwo income couples are becoming the norm. Yet 70% of all parents do not feel they spend enough time with their children (Families and Work Institute, 1998).Over 70% of single mothers are working.

Ethnic IssuesEthnic heritage has a long term effect on family functioning

Current census data indicate the number of foreign-born residents and children of immigrants has reached the highest level in history 56 million people (20% of the population).

38Remember..Everyone comes to this course with some understanding (and opinions) of how families function and interact. However, no two people have the same familial experiences.Each person has something to offer AND something to learn.

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