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NCM 101
I. Family
• A group of people related by blood, marriage or adoption living together (1997 US
Census Bureau)
• Two or more people who live in the same household sharing a common emotional
bond, and perform certain interrelated social tasks (Spradly & Allender, 1996)
• An open and developing system of interacting personalities with structure and process
enacted in relationships among the individual members regulated by resources and
stressors existing within the larger community (Smith & Maurer, 1995)
B. Authority
1. Patriarchal
2. Matriarchal
3. Matricentric
4. Equalitarian
V. Characteristics of a Family
1. The family is product of time and place
• A family is different from another family who lives in another location in many ways.
• A family who lived in the past is different from another family who lives at present in
many ways.