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Title: Family Dynamics


1
Family Dynamics
  • Types of Families

2
Actual Definition of Family
  • 1 a group of individuals living under one roof
    and usually under one head According to
    Websters Dictionary 2008.

3
Important Definitions to Know
  • Child Support-
  • Financial support paid by a parent to help
    support a child or children of whom they do not
    have custody. Child support can be entered
    voluntarily or ordered by a court or a properly
    empowered administrative agency, depending on
    each states laws.
  • Custodial Parent-
  • Person with whom the child(ren) live with the
    majority of the time.
  • Non-Custodial Parent-
  • person with whom the children do not live with
    or live with half or less of the time.

4
Family
  • Despite the changing lifestyles and
    ever-increasing personal mobility that
    characterize modern society, the family remains
    the central element of contemporary life.
  • Families offer companionship, security, and a
    measure of protection against an often uncaring
    world. But family structure, like society at
    large, has undergone significant changes in the
    years since World War II. While the nuclear
    family -- with Dad, Mom, and offspring happily
    coexisting beneath one roof-remains the ideal,
    variations in family structure are plentiful --
    and often successful.

5
Nuclear Family
  • The Nuclear Family is traditionally thought of as
    the parents and the siblings.
  • A good example of a nuclear family would be?

6
The Extended Family
  • The extended family refers to grandparents,
    aunts, uncles, and cousins. A strong relationship
    with your extended family can be just as
    rewarding as close ties inside the nuclear
    family.

7
Single Parents
  • Numerous extenuating circumstances can result in
    a single parent. Traditionally, single parents
    are thought to be a product of a divorce, but a
    widower or a mother who had never been married
    can also be a single parent.  Regardless of the
    causes, single parents face an uphill battle.
    While being a single parent is difficult, it can
    be just as rewarding a traditional, nuclear
    family.
  • A famous single parent family for an example
    could be?

8
Stepfamilies or Blended Families
  • In past generations, stepfamilies were uncommon
    and most people did not know how to relate to
    them. Now, as the stigmas against divorce and
    remarriage continue to dissolve, more and more
    stepfamilies are coming together. While it's
    never easy to merge two families together,
    stepfamilies can be an opportunity to forge new,
    lasting, loving bonds.
  • A famous blended family as an example would be?

9
Family Structures of the Past
  • Divorce was very uncommon, just 50 years ago it
    was less than 15 of married couples divorced.
  • Men were considered the breadwinners, and women
    were to run the household and raise the children.
    Think of the movie Mary Poppins, what role did
    women have and children have? The setting is
    1910. How are children raised?
  • http//www.youtube.com/watch?vWDbOK_fDu9Y

10
Family Structure Today
  • 67 of children today live with both parents.
  • Children living in mother-only families is 24.
  • Children living in father-only families is 5.
  • Living without either parent (with other
    relatives or with nonrelatives) is 5.
  • There are federal reforms to encourage two parent
    married homes for children. Why do you think the
    government is worried about single family homes?

11
What Effect Does Family Structure Have on
children?
  • Economic suffering- With only one parent money is
    tighter, thus sometimes leading to deprivation of
    computers, clothes, the ability to go to good
    schools because of living in poor neighborhoods
    and so forth. Research showing that children do
    better at school and exhibit fewer behavioral
    problems when nonresident fathers or mothers pay
    child support.

12
What Effect Does Family Structure Have on
Children?
  • Quality of Parenting- quality of parenting is one
    of the best predictors of children's emotional
    and social well-being. Many single parents,
    however, find it difficult to function
    effectively as parents. Compared with
    continuously married parents, they are less
    emotionally supportive of their children, have
    fewer rules, dispense harsher discipline, are
    more inconsistent in dispensing discipline,
    provide less supervision, and engage in more
    conflict with their children.
  • Outcomes including poor academic achievement,
    emotional problems, conduct problems, low
    self-esteem, and problems forming and maintaining
    social relationships. Other studies show that
    depression among custodial mothers, which usually
    detracts from effective parenting, is related to
    poor adjustment among offspring.

13
What Effect Does Family Structure Have on
Children?
  • Exposure to Stress- Children living with single
    parents are exposed to more stressful experiences
    and circumstances than are children living with
    continuously married parents. Economic hardship,
    unskilled parenting, and loss of contact with a
    parent can be stressful for children.

14
What about the children?
  • Should parents stay together for the childrens
    sake?
  • Why do you think the lower economic status groups
    (low income) has children outside of marriage?

15
Reflection
  • Should marriage be forever?
  • We vow often in front of God that we will be
    together till death do us partdo you think we
    should say it, if later we change our minds?
  • If we remarry, is it just as important to take
    the other spouses kids, and treat as your own?
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