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Types of Family:
1. Nuclear Family: is a family group consisting of two parents and their
children, who are regarded as a basic social unit.
2. Extended Family: is the most common type of family in the world. It includes
three generations: grandparents, married offspring and grandchildren.
3. Joint Family: are composed of sets of siblings, their spouses, and their
dependent children.
4. Blended Family: blended families are becoming more common, especially in
the US, where divorced and widowed parents who have children marry.
5. Family by Choice: can include adopted children, live-in partners, and close
friends. Family by choice is being practiced by unmarried people and people
who have moved away from their blood related families.
FAMILY CRISIS:
Types of Family Crisis:
Foster (1957) classifies family crisis into two types:
1- Loss of economic support, death, severe and prolonged illness and
accidents.
2. Crisis which involve social stigmas like major social calamities e.g: war,
economic inflation and depression.
Thoughtful planning
Sacrificing nature of family members
Adaptability into a new family
Affectionate relation among family members
Good martial adjustment between husband and wife
Companionable parent-child relationship
Family counsel
Type of control in decision making
A majority of family problems are not under the control of the family. They
must be endured with patience. Thoughtful planning, emotional maturity and
ability to adjust to new circumstances will help to face the situation boldly. It is
not a task to be accomplished by a single individual. The whole family needs to
be reset, as a co-operative endeavour with the motto “United we stand and
divided we all fall”.
The protective nature of the family has currently declined as the ethics of
family accomplishment have taken new structures. In the present day, the
family is more rewarding than protective. It provides what is crucially needed
but absent in other communal arrangements. Family organizations of the
ancient times were advanced. Families were steady and happy since they did
not have to compete with difficulties such as undisciplined children and
separation.
High rates of family separation and births out of wedlock designate a decline in
the family institution. Marriages are no longer organized but are for financial
gain and children do not add to the family proceeds. The increased position of
love signifies a societal change towards supporting emotional implementation
and associations within the family. This change essentially deteriorates the
family institution.
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