Section 5.1 Families Today Slide 1 of 23 Objectives Explain why healthy family relationships are...

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Section 5.1 Families Today

Objectives

Explain why healthy family relationships are important.

Identify three main factors that have changed the form of families.


Describe some family forms that exist today.

Summarize the division of responsibilities within a family.

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Health Stats How have the number of households with a married couple and their children changed over time?

What might have caused the trend you identified?

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• The family is often called the “basic unit of society.”

The Family and Social Health

• If the relationships with family members are healthy, a child learns to love, respect, and get along with others, and to function as part of a group.

• Lasting relationships must be based on mutual caring, trust, and support.

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Three main factors account for changes in the American family

The Changing Family

• more women in the work force

• a high divorce rate

• an increase in the age at which people marry

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• More than half of all mothers with preschool children are in the work force.

More Women in the Work Force

• When parents work outside the home, families spend less time together.

• The parents have to trust other people to care for their children.

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• A divorce is a legal agreement to end a marriage.

High Divorce Rate

• Since 1990, the divorce rate has gradually decreased.

• Divorce affects a family’s structure, finances, and health—emotional and physical.

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• Today many young people delay marriage and parenthood until later in life.

Postponing Marriage

• Most women have two children, and a growing number have none.

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• Families reflect the diverse circumstances, needs, values, and cultures of the people in them.

Family Forms

• Children can live in nuclear, single-parent, extended, blended, or foster families.

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• A nuclear family consists of a couple and their child or children living together in one household.

Nuclear Family

• Adoption is the legal process by which parents take another person’s child into their family to be raised as their own.

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• A single-parent family is a family in which only one parent lives with the child or children.

Single-Parent Family

• Mothers head about 90 percent of single-parent families.

• Financial worries are often a major problem in single-parent families.

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• An extended family is a group of close relatives living together or near each other.

Extended Family

• In extended families, family responsibilities are shared among all members.

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• A blended family consists of a biological parent, a stepparent, and the children of one or both parents.

Blended Family

• At least seven million children under the age of 18 live in blended families.

• Successful blended families say that it is important to be flexible.

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• In a foster family, an adult or couple cares for children whose biological parents are unable to care for them.

Foster Family

• The foster family provides a temporary home for the children.

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• A married couple without any children

Other Families

• A group of unrelated people who choose to live together and support and care for one another

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• For a family to function effectively, each member of the family must do his or her part.

Responsibilities Within the Family

• Often there are some responsibilities that clearly belong to the adults, some that clearly belong to the children, and some that can be shared.

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• The heads of families are expected to provide for their children’s basic needs.

Adults’ Responsibilities

• food

• Adult family members are responsible for teaching children to behave in a way that is acceptable to the family and to society.

• clothing

• shelter

• education

• health care

• security

• love

• This process is called socialization.

• Adult family members set rules to protect their children’s safety and to maintain order within the family.

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• As a young child, you may have been responsible for dressing yourself, tidying up your room, and doing your homework.

Children’s Responsibilities

• Today, you may have to do household chores, care for your younger brothers or sisters, or add to the family income.

• You are also responsible for following family rules and for showing respect for all family members.

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• Many families divide up the responsibilities.

Shared Responsibilities

• There are benefits to sharing household chores.

• Children who are trusted with important tasks develop a sense of responsibility and higher self-esteem.

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Vocabulary

divorce A legal agreement to end a marriage.

nuclear family A couple and their child or children living together in one household.

adoption The legal process by which parents takeanother person’s child into their family to be raised as their own.

single-parent family

A family in which only one parent lives with the child or children.

extended family A group of close relatives living together or near each other.

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Vocabulary

blended family Consists of a biological parent, a stepparent, and the children of one or both parents.

foster family A family in which an adult or a couple cares for children whose biological parents are unable to care for them.

socialization The process by which children are taught to behave in a way that is acceptable to family and society.

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