The Family

Monica
Lesson 1: Meaning, nature, functions
and classifications of family

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 Meaning
Meaning of
of family
family

• A family is a social group characterized by common residence, economic

cooperation and reproduction( George Burdock)

• The family is a socially sanctioned, relatively permanent grouping of people who

are united by blood, marriage or adoption and who generally live together and
cooperate economically( Hedbing and Glick)
• The family is a relatively permanent group of persons linked together in social
roles by ties of blood, marriage or adoption, who live together and cooperate
economically and in the rearing of children( Brinkerhoff and White)
• The family is further defined as group of people who are related through
marriage, blood or adoption, interact with one another in their designated roles of
husband, wife, mother, son ,etc and create and maintain a common
subculture( Lanz and Snyder)

Totally ,the family is a most important primary group in which members share
economic resources and day-to-day responsibilities.

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 Characteristic
Characteristic of
of family
family

• A family is composed of people united by tie of marriage,

blood or adoption
• The member of a family usually live together under one
roof and they constitutes a single housekeeping unit
• The family members are associated with one another
with specific social roles
• The family maintain a culture

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 Functions
Functions of
of Family
Family

• The family provides for the continuity of mankind through reproduction

• The family regulates sexual behavior
• The family provides the necessary care ,training and protection of every
member
• The family is responsible for socializing the child
• The family provides the means by which an individual’s social status is
initially fixed
• The family is an important inechanism for social control
• The family performs the function of biological maintenance
• The family has an educational function
• The family has a religious function
• The family has political function

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 Importance
Importance of
of Family
Family

• The strong or weak mental and physical aspects of the

organism inherited from the parents can be develop in the
family
• In the family, the child learn the meaning of social
responsibility and the necessary for cooperation. It plays a
significant role in socializing persons
• The family is transmitter of culture
• The family serves as a model for the establishment of
another family

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 Classification
Classification of
of Family
Family

• According to organization
– Conjugal family
– Nuclear family
– Extender family
• According to place of Residence
– Neolocal
– Patrilocal
– Matrilocal
• According to descent
– Patrilineal
– Matrilineal
– Bilineal

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• According to Authority
– Patriarchal
– Matriarchal
– Egalitarian

• According to Form of Marriage

– Monogamy
– Polygamy
– Polyandry
– Polygyny

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 Lesson
Lesson
Lesson 1:
1: 2 : nature,
Meaning,
Meaning, Courtship
nature, functions
and
functions and
and Marriage
classifications
classifications of
of family
family

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 Meaning
Meaning of
of Courtship
Courtship

• Burgess defines courtship as “all forms of behavior by

which one seeks to win the consent of another for
marriage”
• Courtship is the stage preparatory to marriage.( Panopio,
Macdonald and Raymundo)
• Courtship is a process of trial and error undertaken by
individuals to find out who best fulfill their love
requirements, a complex process of offering and seeking
satisfaction, generally with a calculation of gain as
compare with risk and with a concealment of real
motives( Kirkpatrick)

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 Stages
Stages of
of courtship
courtship

• Dating
• Gong steady
• Private understanding
• Engagement

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 Marriage
Marriage

• Marriage is defined as a formal and durable sexual union of

man and woman which is conducted within a set designated
rights and duties( Lanz and Snyder)
• The definition implies that marriage become formal when it is
accepted and sanctioned by society and that relationship is
characterized by permanence. Sexual union implies sexual
intimacy between man and woman after marriage
• Marriage means the acquisition of a whole new set of duties
an responsibilities as well as rights. the term marriage is by
itself an institution admitting man and woman for family life
with the primary purpose of begetting and rearing children

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 Requisites
Requisites for
for marriage
marriage

• Legal capacity of the contracting parties

• Consent of the contracting parties
• Valid marriage license

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 Dissolution
Dissolution of
of marriage
marriage

• Annulment
• Divorce
• Legal separation

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 Grounds
Grounds for
for annulment
annulment of
of marriage
marriage

• Lack of parental consent

• Insanity of one of the parties
• Fraud, however, if free cohabitation between two
parties after full knowledge of the fraud
,marriage is ratified
• Force, intimidation or undue influence
• Importance
• Affliction of sexual transmissible disease fond to
be serious and which appears incurable
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 Grounds
Grounds for
for legal
legal separation
separation

• Repeated physical violence or grossly abusive conduct

• Physical violence or moral; pressure to compel the petitioner to change
religion or political affiliation
• Attempt to corrupt petitioner or child to teenage in prostitution
• Final judgment sentencing respondent to more than six year of
imprisonment
• Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism
• Lesbianism or homosexuality
• Contracting by one spouse of another marriage
• Sexual infidelity or perversion
• Attempt by one spouse against the life of the other
• Abandonment of one spouse by one other for more than one year.

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 Problem
Problem of
of the
the Filipino
Filipino Family
Family

• Immaturity
• Economic instability
• The “querida” system
• Increase in number of working mothers
• Inadequacy of leisure time activities
• Unhealthy living condition
• Large number of children

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 Thanks
Thanks for
for listening
listening

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