Objectives

1. The learner will be able to recognize the importance of family structure, function and family
roles
2. Describe the ways that have influence the contemporary Filipino in maternal and child
nursing care.
Family
refers to two or more individuals who depend
on one another for emotional, physical,
and/or financial support; members of the
family are self-defined
Family Functions:
six historical functions performed by families
are economic survival, reproduction,
protection, cultural heritage, socialization of
young, and conferring status; contemporary
functions involve relationships and health
Family Structure:
refers to the characteristics and demographics
of individual members who make up family
units; more specifically, the structure of a
family defines the roles and the positions of
family members
Residential Patterns
• PATRILOCALITY
– With or near the husband’s family
• MATRILOCALITY
– With or near the wife’s family
• NEOLOCALITY
– Setting up house apart from both families

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Residential Patterns
• PATRILOCALITY
– With or near the husband’s family
• MATRILOCALITY
– With or near the wife’s family
• NEOLOCALITY
– Setting up house apart from both families

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Residential Patterns
• PATRILOCALITY
– With or near the husband’s family
• MATRILOCALITY
– With or near the wife’s family
• NEOLOCALITY
– Setting up house apart from both families

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Structural-Functional Analysis of the
Family
• The family serves basic functions
– Socialization – creating well-integrated members of society
– Regulation of sexual activity – maintenance of kinship order and
property rights, incest taboos
– Social placement - births to married couples are preferred in
societies
– Material and emotional security – home can be a haven for people
• Critical evaluation
– Glosses over great diversity of family life, how other institutions are
taking over its roles & negative aspects like patriarchy and family
violence

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