1st Senior High School of Hymettus

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1st Senior High School of Hymettus

• Project Family patterns in Greece

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Whats wrong with this picture?

• Father works
• hard so that
• his children
• will have got
• everything
• they need.

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Whats wrong with this picture?

• Mum stays at home and takes care of
  everything.

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Whats wrong with this picture?

• Grandma and
• grandpa are
• around for
• comfort and
• advice.

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Whats wrong with this picture?

• This picture
• no longer
• represents
• reality at
• least in
• Greece.

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Survey results

• We conducted a survey for students of A class
  regarding the family patterns.
• The questions asked referred to what type of
  family each student belonged to.
• The students said whether they belonged to one of
  the following groups

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Family pattern groups

• A family of both parents with one child the
  student.
• A family of both parents with two children the
  student and one more.
• A family with both parents and more than two
  children
• A family that consists of only two members the
  mother and the student.
• A family that consists of three members the
  mother and two children.

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Family pattern groups

• A family that consists of four or more members
  the mother and children.
• A family that consists of father and child.
• A family that consists of father and two or more
  children.
• A family of any of the above types that also
  includes grandparents (one or more).

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Survey results A1 family patterns
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Survey results A2 family patterns
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Survey results A3 family patterns
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Analysis of the family patterns A1

• It appears that of the 20 students in A1,
• the majority of them -11- belong to the group
  both parents, two children.
• 3 students are only children and they live with
  both their parents.
• 1 belongs to a both parents family with two more
  children.
• 1 belongs to a both parents family with more than
  two children.
• 4 live with a sibling and their mother.
• None lives with grandparents.

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Analysis of the family patterns A2

• Of the 21 students in A2,
• 6 of them belong to the group both parents, two
  children one of them also has a grandmother
  that lives at home with them.
• 6 students are only children and they live with
  both their parents one lives also with a
  grandmother.
• 2 belong to a both parents family with two more
  children.
• 2 belong to a both parents family with more that
  two other children.
• 1 lives with a a sibling their mother and
  grandmother.
• 3 live with their mother and two more siblings.
• 1 lives with a mother and more than two siblings.

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Analysis of the family patterns A3

• Of the 21 students in A3,
• 7 of them belong to the group both parents,
  two children.
• 7 students are only children and they live with
  both their parents.
• 3 belong to a both parents family with two more
  children.
• 4 belong to a both parents family with more than
  two children.
• None lives with one parent only.
• None lives with grandparents.

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Statistical data

• Some students of C class helped with our survey.
• They logged on the internet and found out the
  following statistical data.

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The present situation in Europe

• The stereotype image of a family that
  generations have grown with, seems to have been
  replaced by alternative forms of family.
  Actually, all over the world, a revolution is
  gradually taking place. Couples become parents
  without getting married, men and women get
  married for a second time and have a new family
  that has room for children from previous
  marriages, couples with their own children adopt
  children from third world countries and even
  children with special needs.

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Facts and figures

• 6 children in 1000 in Netherlands are born by
  teenage mothers, while the number in Britain is
  30 in 1000.
• 405 of the fathers in Denmark spend more than 28
  hours per week looking after their children. For
  the same number of hours the percentage for
  Portugal is 85 and for Greece 7.
• 15 of the men between 25 - 29 live with their
  parents in England and France.

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Divorces

• Divorces are increasing and one parent
  families are getting more common. In Europe,
  statistics say that 30 of families are one
  parent families with a parent who is either
  divorced or not married or widowed.

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Adoptions

• The percentage of families with adopted
  children in Italy is 8.
• 50,346 are the children who were adopted in
  Europe from 1971 to 2001.

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One parent families

• 1.8 million families in the UK are one parent
  families . In 10 of these families the parent is
  the mother. The average age for these women is 35
  and only one in three mothers is a teenager. In
  1972 only 1 in 14 children lived with one parent
  in Britain. The rate today is 1 in 4.

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Multi racial families

• In 2005, 305 of the births in France have a
  parent from another race.
• 3 million children in Britain are born out of
  parents of different race.

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Out of wedlock births

• Ireland
• 1 in 3 children were born out of wedlock in
  2004 while in 1980 the rate was 15 children in
  100.
• Denmark
• The 50 of the children are born out of
  wedlock. More than 40 births in a 100 in Denmark
  are out of marriage while in France, England,
  Finland and Austria the number is 25-35 in 100.
• Spain
• 1 in 5 children are born out of wedlock. This
  number has doubled for Spain since 1991. Also 1
  million Spanish people cohabitate according to
  the census of 1001, an increase of 155 since
  1991.

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Out of wedlock births

• Finland
• The 43 of the births are out of wedlock while
  the 30 of the infants live only with their
  mothers.
• Sweden
• In 2003 more than half the women who became
  mothers were unmarried.
• Austria
• 33,1 of children are now born out of wedlock,
  while the percentage was 17.8 in the 1980s.

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Out of wedlock births

• Poland
• 13,1 of children are born out of wedlock,
  while the percentage in the 90s was 4,7.
• Netherlands
• 30 of the children are born out of wedlock
  but only 21 of them who are under 5 years old
  live with unmarried parents. After the age of 5
  only the 11 continue living with unmarried
  parents.

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Why is the change taking place?

• Other reasons that contribute to the changing
  patterns of family formation are medical advances
  that allow women to have children even in the
  absence of a father, the growing migration that
  brings closer people who had no chance of
  communicating otherwise, the stigma of
  homosexuality that seems to have been erased .

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Homosexual relations

• In Spain census of 1991, 10500 men and women
  admitted they were homosexuals. This summer,
  Spain allowed the marriage among homosexuals and
  gave them the right to adopt children. This
  example is followed by the UK that will legalise
  marriages among homosexuals at Christmas, while
  countries of Northern Europe have already done
  this.

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Who takes care of the children?

• In 66 of European families, both parents
  work out of the house and in the Scandinavian
  countries it is common for fathers to stay at
  home and take care of children, while women work.
  More and more women are getting married at a
  later age and they are able to take good care of
  their family, even if they are left alone whether
  by a divorce or the death of the spouse.

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Conclusion

• The students of all 3 classes said that they were
  not surprised by the results. The extended family
  picture does not exist any more and has stopped
  existing for years. Students said that they meet
  the grandparents only when they go to their
  native villages or during celebrations like
  Christmas and Easter.

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Conclusion

• All the students said that in 20 years from now
  they are certain that the form of the family will
  have changed even more and that more and more
  children will be living with one parent only.
  Some students went as far as to say that they
  think the institution of marriage is already a
  thing of the past.

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References

• The information in this presentation comes
• from the survey the students made based on the
  questionnaires the students of A class completed
  for themselves and group work on the Friday
  activity sessions .
• from the ETHNOS newspaper Sunday 23 October 2005
• From Internet search (www.in.gr)

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