The Family

Family

Murdock (1949:1)

•Common residence•Economic Cooperation•Reproduction

Burgess and Locke (1963:2)•Ties of Marriage•Blood or Adaptation•Interaction/Communication

Marriage

Important Institutional

Element

Foundation of the Family

Family Code of the Philippines

Inviolable Institution

Forms of Marriage

Monogamy PolygamyMonogamy Polygamy

Polygyny

Group Marriage

Polyandry

Selection of Marriage Partner

Endogamy

Exogamy Levirate

Sororate

Family Structures

Based on Internal Organization or Membership

Based on Descent

Based on Residence

Based on Authority

Based on Internal Organization or Membership

Nuclear Family

A unit of family consisting a couple and their

children.Extended Family

A family unit consist of a nuclear family plus one or more relatives living together.

Conjugal familyIncludes only the husband, the wife, and

unmarried children who are not of age.

Consanguineal FamilyConsist only the parents and his or her

children and other people.

Based on Descent

Patrilineal DescentAffiliates a person with the group of relatives

through his or her father.

Matrilineal DescentAffiliates a person with the group of relatives

related through his or her mother.

Bilateral DescentAffiliates a person with the group of relatives

related through both his or her parents.

Based on Residence Patrilocal Residence

Requires that the newly married couple live with or near the domicile of the parents of the bride’s groom.

Matrilocal Residence

Requires that the newly married couples live with or near the domicile of the parents of her bride.

Bilocal Residence

Gives a couple a choice of staying with either the groom’s or bride’s parents.

Neolocal Residence

Residence permits the newly married couple to reside independently of the parents of either groom or bride.

Avunculocal ResidencePrescribe that the newly married with or near the

maternal uncle of the groom

Based on the AuthorityThe Patriarchal Family

Is one which the authority is vested in the oldest male in the family, often the father.

The Matriarchal FamilyIs one which the authority is vested in the

mother or the mother’s kin.The Egalitarian Family

Is one in which the husband and the wife exercise a more or less equal amount of authority.

The Matricentic FamilyIs a recently Emerged type usually found in

the suburb of the United States.

Functions of Family

Regulates sexual behaviour and is the unit of reproduction.

Performs the function of biologic

maintenance.

Chief agency for socializing the child.

Gives its member a status.

Important mechanism for social control.

Performs economic function, especially in simple societies.

Structural Characteristic of Filipino Family The basic social units in the Philippine society are the nuclear

family which includes the father, mother ,and children, and bilaterally extended kinship group, which embraces all relatives of the father and mother.

The Christian Filipino has a often been describe as a large family group, usually including three generations in the same home, that extended family in terms of membership.

Among the Filipino Muslim the more common type is the joint family.

The Filipino family is said to be a patriarchal in authority . Studies made by the sociologist and anthropologist reveal that the Filipino family is not patriarchal nor was it’s so in the egalitarian.

The Filipino family is bilateral in terms of reckoning descent and social allocation.

In terms of residence the Filipino family may be said to be bilocal and neolocal.

Courtship and Marriage

Courtship and Marriage are the culmination of the development that has taken place throughout the first eighteen to twenty years of life. Courtship allows to practice in a limited way the roles and virtues necessary in marriage. Marriage permits them to practice the roles and virtues necessary in eternal life. In the proper courtship the partners recognize that their first responsibilities are to encourage each other in righteous behaviour and to sustain and support each other in righteous desires and ambitions.

Social Change and the Filipino Family

The Philippine is undergoing many changes. These have been brought about by many factors which had profound effects on the family. Among them are the geographical mobility, increasing population, increasing industrialization and urbanization, the idea of the universal education, the changed status and role of the Filipino women, The diffusion of the mass media.

These changes brings about conflicts in the values and mores, which may turns bring about social problems. And there is n gainsaying the fact that the problems beset the Filipino family today. Among these are conflict in the families, separation and desertion, abortion, illegitimacy, prostitution, the youth problem, juvenile delinquency, Drug abuse, and their likes. The extent of the problems is difficult to ascertain.