FAMILY STRUCTURE

FAMILY
STRUCTURE
• Family structure
typically relates to the
various aspects of a
family like the size of
the family, its form and
composition, the
relations within the
members, and the way
they are organized.
FAMILY
STRUCTURE
• The most common
form of family
structure is often
referred to as
nuclear family.
Categorization of
family structures
Nuclear family
• also known as ―conjugalǁ
family that includes a
husband and a wife living
together with their
biological children.
Extended
family
• A family unit that
may include
grandparents,
cousins, aunts,
uncles, and other
relatives that live
together in the same
household.
Stepfamilies
• In most basic sense,
stepfamily is one
where the parents from
two different families
decided to remarried to
form a new family unit
due to divorce or
separation.
Single parent
family
• This can be either a
single mother raising
her children or a single
father taking care of his
own kids, or it could be
a single person
fostering his/her kids.
Adoptive
family
• A family that
contains one or
more adopted
children and at
least one adoptive
parent.
Biracial or
multiracial family

• A family composed of
more than one race. It
may consist of parents
from different racial
backgrounds and their
bi-racial/multi-racial
offspring.
Blended
family
• Two or more types of families
merging. Blended families can
take on many forms.
1. It could be a family unit where
parents have children from
previous marriage, reconstituted
to form a new one.
2. It may include step-parents and
step-siblings or parents who may
be in a same-sex or heterosexual
relationship.
Conditionally
separated families
• A family in which one or more
members are temporarily separated
from the rest of the family.
• This may be due to circumstances
such as:
1. Military service
2. Hospitalization
3. Deportation
4. Incarceration
5. others
Foster family
• refer to a situation in
which one or more
children are not living
in their own family of
origin. The children are
under the temporary
care of another family.
 Gay or Lesbian
family
• Under this category, the term
gay or lesbian family is
sometimes referred to as
rainbow family.
• In the broadest sense, it is
defined by the presence of
two individuals who share
same sexual orientation,
rearing a child.
Immigrant
family
• A type of family
structure where
parents moved
from another
country and settled
in.
Migrant
family
•A family that
moves
frequently from
one place to
another for
various reasons.
Categorization of family structures

•Nuclear Family
•Extended Family
•Stepfamily/Blended family
•Single Parent Family
•Adoptive Family
•Biracial or Multiracial Family
Categorization of family structures

•Conditionally Separated Family

•Foster Family
•Gay or Lesbian Family
•Immigrant Family
•Migrant Family
Filipino
Values
sense of propriety or “hiya”
•a rather positively defined values
among Filipinos which means
conformity to the good.
pakikipagkapwa-tao
•showing empathy towards and with
others.
hospitality
•one of the values by which Filipinos are
famous of; being polite and
accommodating to other people.
utang na loob
•a sense of obligation to the part of someone
being helped with to repay the one who has
done a favor.
bayanihan
•the spirit of communal unity and
cooperation.