PERDEV (Family Structures and Legacies)

• What is considered a family support system which involves two married individuals providing care and stability for their biological offspring?

  traditional family
• When is a family created?

  created at birth
• What are the different classifications of family?

  Nuclear, extended, step, single-parent, adoptive, bi-racial or multi-racial, trans-racial adoptive, blended, conditionally separated, foster, gay or lesbian family, immigrant family, migrant family
• Nuclear Family – a family consist of at most a father, mother, and dependent children. It is considered a traditional family.
• What do you call a family that is consist of parents, children, and grandparent, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, or cousins, etc.?

  Extended family
• Step Families – two families brough together due to divorce, separation, and remarriage.
• Single Parent Family – this can be either a father or a mother who is singly responsible for the raising of a child. The child can be by birth or adoption.
• What do you call a family that includes one or more children that has been adopted?

  Adoptive family
• Bi-racial or multi-racial Family – a family where the parents are of different racial identity groups.
• a family where the adopted child is of a different racial identity group than the parents - trans-racial adoptive family
• Blended Family – a family that consists of members from two or more previous families.
• What do you call a family wherein a family member is seperated from the rest of the family?

  conditionally separated family
• Foster Family – A family where one or more of the children is legally a temporary member of the household.
• Gay or lesbian Family – a family where one or both of the parents’ sexual orientation is gay or lesbian.
• what do you call a family in which at least one parent was born outside the country of residence?

  Immigrant family
• Migrant family - a family that moves its residence for the purpose of employment
• Heritage - something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition
• How can a heritage be transferred?

  directly or indirectly
• Cultural heritage - The material and immaterial remains of a culture, including its arts, sciences, and beliefs.
• Cultural heritage - intangible attributes of a group or community or society inherited from the past
• A shared bond, our belonging to a community. - cultural heritage
• What are the different types of legacy?

  emotional, social, spiritual
• Emotional legacy - is something that is conceptualized and role modeled during a lifetime.
• Social legacy - refers to management techniques, accounting, reading, writing, and geometry
• Social Legacy – they need to learn the fine art of relating to people.
• Spiritual Legacy – how we adopt attitudes and beliefs about spiritual

  matters from one source or another.
• what do you call the combination of social, emotional, and spiritual legacy passed on from a parent to child?

  heritage