family structures

• the nuclear family is the most common type of family structure
• A genogram is a useful tool to gather information about a person's family.
• The traditional family structure is considered a family support system which involves two married individuals providing care and stability for their biological offspring.
• Nuclear family: A family unit consisting of at most a father, mother and dependent children is considered the “traditional” family.
• Extended family: A family consisting of parents and children, along with either grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins etc.
• Step families: Two families brought together due to divorce, separation, and remarriage.
• In some circumstances, the extended family comes to live either with or in place of a member of the nuclear family.
• Single parent family: This can be either a father or a mother who is singly responsible for the raising of a child.
• They may be a single parent by choice or by life circumstances.
• Adoptive family: A family where one or more of the children has been adopted.
• Gay or Lesbian family: A family where one or both of the parents’ sexual orientation is gay or lesbian.
• This may be a two - parent family, an adoptive family, a single parent family or an extended family.
• Conditionally separated families: A family member is separated from the rest of the family.
• Ainsworth concluded that there were three major styles of attachment: secure, ambivalent-insecure, and avoidant-insecure.
• Blended family: A family that consists of members from two (or more) previous families.
• Authoritative parenting happens when the parents both have firm limits with their children’s behavior with love, affection, and warmth, are willing to listen, and there is democracy in the family.
• Researchers Main and Solomon added a fourth attachment style known as disorganized-insecure attachment.
• Uninvolved parenting expects children to raise themselves, doesn't devote much time or energy into meeting children's basic needs, and may be neglectful or lack knowledge about child development.
• Parenting Style is a constellation of parents' attitudes and behaviors toward children and an emotional climate in which the parents' behaviors are expressed.
• Authoritarian parenting is characterized by the parent being excessively concerned with rules, demanding perfection, not making or accepting any viewpoint other than their own, and using physical punishment with their children.
• Permissive parenting can be demonstrated through giving very few rules or demands to their children, allowing their children to behave in any way they want, and are lenient.
• They remain significant members of the family.
• Attachment styles are characterized by different ways of interacting and behaving in relationships.
• This may be due to employment far away like military service, incarceration, hospitalization or working abroad like being an OFW.