Family

• Warm-up: Page W3• Please create a definition of family. What is

your family? What does a family do? Include all of that in your definition.

Family• What did you put as your definition?• 1. a. a basic social unit consisting of parents and their

children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family.

• b. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.

• 2. the children of one person or one couple collectively• 3. the spouse and children of one person• 4. any group of persons closely related by blood, as

parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins• 5. all those persons considered as descendants of a

common progenitor.

Family Types- Singletons

• 1 in 24 adults remain single throughout their life

• 66% are women• Refers to people who

have never married, or people who live alone after a spouse dies.

Family Types- POSSLQ’s

• AKA Cohabitation• Person’s of the opposite

sex sharing living quarters WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF MARRIAGE.

• Cohabitators have a 60% divorce rate.

Family Types- Couples with no children

• Married couple with no children (no adopted, biological, step)

• Cost to raise a child to 18 = 200,000

• 1.86 kids per family with children in 2010, 3.6 in 1957

• Could be because– Lifestyle– Work commitment– Fertility

Family Types- Nuclear Traditional

• Two opposite sex parents with biological children to both. No step.

• Average age for 1st marriage– 28.2 Men– 26.1 Women

Divorced Adults/Single Parents• 60% of divorces have children

in the family• 1 in 4 children live with one

parent• Single parent families has

doubled in the past 20 years• About 50% of the

children in divorced families report having not seen their father in the last year and only 1 of 6 see him once a week.

• Divorced adult= a couple that has decided to end their marriage

• Single-parent family= a parent who cares for without the assistance of another person in the home.

Grandparents as Caregivers

• Refers to grandparent taking over the responsibilities of raising their grandchildren.

• Grandparents returning to the role of parent

Boomerang Families• Grown children moving

back in with their parents OR living longer with their parents

Grandparents Living with Family

• Refers to grandparents that move in with their grown adult children and their families.

• More instances of this happening, making adult children “sandwich generations”

Blended Families• A composite family

structure by the convergence of two previously unrelated nuclear families, each of which have lost a mother or father through death/divorce

• Step siblings• Many different

types