1. FAMILY (Types and Life Cycle)
Parent & Child

2. Free Write Take 10 minutes to write about your family.
Who is in your family?
What do you like?
What don’t you like/What bugs you?
Tell me about them….

3. Your Family Draw a picture that represents your family. Be CREATIVE!
Be sure to include something that represents each family member (name, picture, word, etc.)
Other ideas:
Unique things about your family
Traditions your family has
Be CREATIVE!

4. What is a Family?

5. Values and Functions of Family
How do families pass on values?
Through example
Through talking
Through religious training
What 2 functions do families perform?
Help meet each other’s basic needs
Prepare children to live in society

6. Needs of Children In what ways do families meet the needs of children?
Provide food, shelter, and clothing
Basic needs for safety and health
Intellectual needs
Family is a child’s first teacher
Social and emotional needs
How to get along with others
How to share and take turns
How to work together toward a common goal

7. Types of Families

8. Types of Families Nuclear Single Parent Blended Extended
Other: Divorced, Foster Care, Adoption, Mixed Race, LBGT

9. Nuclear Families Mother, Father, and at least 1 child
Two parents help to raise the child/children.
Examples?

10. Single Parent
Definition: Single-parent (also lone parent and sole parent) is a parent who cares for one or more children without the assistance of another parent in the home.
2 million fathers primary caregivers
62% increase since 1990
single mothers 3 million to 13.7 million

11. 1 in 2 children will live single parent at some point of childhood
1 in 3 children born out of wed lock
the # of babies born to unmarried women quadrupled! (500, million +)
Examples?

12. Blended Families A single parent remarries
Step Parent , Step brother or sisters
Examples?

13. Extended Families
Relatives other than the parent or sibling that lives with them.
Grandparents, aunt, uncle, cousin
Examples?

14. Other Types of Families
Divorced
Foster Care
Adoption
Mixed Race
LBGT
Examples?

15. How have families changed over the past 10 years? 30 years? 50 years?

16. TV Show/Movie Examples
List your favorite TV Show or Movie
What type(s) of family is represented?

17. Advantages vs. Disadvantages
List advantages and disadvantages of each type of family
Nuclear
Single Parent
Blended
Extended
Other: Divorced, Foster Care, Adoption, Mixed Race, LBGT

18. Family Life Cycle

19. Life Cycle Stages Beginning Stage Expanding Stage Developing Stage
Launching Stage
Empty Nest
Retirement Stage

20. Beginning Stage Early Married Years Living on own
Works to establish home & family
Establishing peer relationships
Developing intimacy with spouse
Financially supporting themselves
Loyalty & commitment to relationship
Important they feel as separate individuals from original families

21. Expanding Stage Discussing if they should have children
Preparing for childbearing/labor/delivery
Brings couples together
Reflecting their own parenting styles
How they want to raise their child
New efforts of communications are established

22. Developing Stage Preschool years School-age years
Maintain relationships with spouse while establishing new roles and responsibilities of parenthood.
NOT EASY TASK
Family traditions established
School-age years
Gender roles and expectations developed
Parents work to meet children’s changing needs
Help to develop independence

23. Teenage years
Struggle INDEPENDENCE VS DEPENDANCE
Identity crisis
Parents adjust to child as young adults
Teens still need guidance & support
Discuss social responsibility & ethics

24. Launching Stage Launching children from “nest”
Children leave home to support themselves
Parents help children adapt to their own life

25. Empty Nest Stage Reestablishing relationships with spouse
Honeymoon vs. Emptiness
Adjust to adult-adult conversations

26. Retirement Stage Generatively- giving of themselves
Grandchildren & family enjoyment
Adjust to retirement
Greater time together with spouse
Difficulty in switching roles

27. Trends Affecting Families
Mobility
Cultural Diversity
Aging Population
Economic Changes
Workplace Change
Technology

28. Other Trends 2 income families Bankruptcy Medical advancements
Remarriages
Birth control
Deaths in family
Advances in work
More experimenting with drugs/alcohol at younger age.
Teenage pregnancy
Addict parents
Traditions
Unemployment
Chemotherapy
Blended families
Infertility
Homelessness
Home businesses

29. Managing Multiple Roles
Consider the relative importance of roles.
Set your goals and base your decisions on them.
Realize that there are always trade-offs.
Improve your leadership and teamwork skills.
Treat time as a valuable resource.
Stay organized.
Find ways to cope with stress.
Share responsibilities.

30. Coping with Pressures on the Family
Steps to take to avoid the “frantic family syndrome”:
Avoid scheduling too many activities
Watch for clues that family members need a break
Focus on responsibilities and on activities that people enjoy
Schedule family meals
Plan ahead
Maintain your sense of humor