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FAMILY STRUCTURE
 FAMILY
• Family comes from the Latin word familia
which means group of people living in the
household. Family could be related by blood,
by birth, or by other relationship.
• Family is the basic unit of society. It is the
smallest organization in the community. It is
said to be a group of individual living together
in one household.
• Family comes in different forms. It could vary
from one family to another. It is usually
composed of mother, father and children;
some other includes grandparents, aunts,
uncles, cousins, and other relatives.
TYPES OF FAMILY
STRUCTURE
 TYPES OF
FAMILY STRUCTURE
1. NUCLEAR FAMILY
• It is also known as
“conjugal” or “traditional”
family, consisting of married
couples and their offspring.

Example:
Mother, father, and children
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
2. EXTENDED FAMILY
• This type of family includes all
relatives in proximity, such as
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and
cousins. These relatives typically
live together, and all share daily
household duties.

Example:
A family living together with
mother, father, children,
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and
other relatives in one roof
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3. SINGLE PARENT FAMILY
• This family type includes one parent and their children only. A single
parent family could be the result of a divorce, the death of one
parent, or even a single parent adoption.

Example:
Father with his children
or a mother with her
children living in
one household
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4. STEP FAMILY
• A family where the parents have divorced and remarried,
bringing children from other unions together to form a new
nuclear family.
• It is also known as “blended” family
because two families were combined.

Example:
Mother, children, stepfather, and his kids
Father, children, stepmother, and her kids
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5. FOSTER FAMILY
• A family includes parent who
serves as a temporary guardian
for one or more children to whom
they may or may not be
biologically related.

Example:
Parents, children,
foster child
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
6. ADOPTED/ADOPTIVE FAMILY
• A family wherein parents may adopt a child to whom they share no
blood relationship, or one parent may adopt the child of the other
parent.

Example:
Parents (mother and father), adopted child
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
7. BI-RACIAL/MULTI-RACIAL FAMILY
• A family wherein parents
are from different races

Example:
Filipina mother,
American father, children
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
8. TRANS-RACIAL ADOPTIVE FAMILY
• A family wherein parents
adopted a child with a
different race.

Example:
American parents,
adopted Filipino children
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
9. CONDITIONALLY SEPARATED FAMILY
• A family wherein one of the family members is
conditionally separated from the others. This separation
may be due to their job or employment or could be due
to hospitalization.

Example:
A family living together except for the father working
abroad or a family living together except for the eldest
child serving in the military
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
10. CHILDLESS FAMILY
• Married couple without
children

Example:
Mother and father only
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
11. GAY OR LESBIAN FAMILY
• A family wherein one or both
parents have a different sexual
orientation and part of the
LGBT community

Example:
A lesbian mother and her
children with a gay father
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
12. MIGRANT FAMILY
• It is a family who settles together in a different
place; it could be from one place to another due
to some circumstances such as the father’s job.

Example:
A family who migrated from a place because
the father is a military officer
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13. IMMIGRANT FAMILY
• A family wherein one or both parents are already an
immigrant of other country. Their children may be or
may not be an immigrant.

Example:
Santos family whose mom is already an immigrant
of Canada -- their mother is already a Canadian
citizen but the rest of the family members are not.
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LEGACIES
 FAMILY
LEGACIES
1. EMOTIONAL LEGACY
• It is fostering a sense of security and stability nurtured in an
environment of safety and love.

A strong emotional legacy:

• provides a safe environment in which
deep emotional roots can grow
• fosters confidence through stability
• conveys a tone of trusting support
• nurtures a strong sense of positive identity
• creates a “resting place” for the soul
• demonstrates unconditional love
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LEGACIES
2. SOCIAL LEGACY
• It is teaching the family the fine art of relating to people. If a person learns how to
relate well to others, he will have an edge in the game of life.

Key building blocks of children’s social legacy include:

• respect, beginning with themselves and working out to other people
• responsibility, fostered by respect for themselves, that is cultivated by
assigning children duties within the family, making them accountable for their
actions, and giving them room to make wrong choices once in a while
• unconditional love and acceptance by their parents, combined with
conditional acceptance when the parents discipline for bad behavior or actions
• the setting of social boundaries concerning how to relate to God, authority,
peers, the environment and siblings
• rules that are given within a loving relationship
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LEGACIES
3. SPIRITUAL LEGACY
•As we are spiritual beings,
we should adopt attitudes
and beliefs about spiritual
matters from one source
or another.