The Family (SAS 10)

• Family

  Basic unit in society, and is shaped by all forces surround it.
• NUCLEAR


  a father, a mother with child/children living together but apart from both sets of parents and other relatives.
• EXTENDED


  composed of two or more nuclear families economically and socially related to each other. Multigenerational, including married brothers and sisters, and the families.
• SINGLE PARENT


  divorced or separated, unmarried or widowed male or female with at least one child.
• BLENDED/RECONSTITUTED


  a combination of two families with children from both families and sometimes children of the newly married couple. It is also a remarriage with children from previous marriage.
• COMPOUND


  one man/woman with several spouses
• COMMUNAL


  more than one monogamous couple sharing resources
• COHABITING/LIVE-IN


  unmarried couple living together
• DYAD


  husband and wife or other couple living alone without children
• GAY/LESBIAN


  homosexual couple living together with or without children
• NO-KIN


  a group of at least two people sharing a relationship and exchange support who have no legal or blood tie to each other
• FOSTER


  substitute family for children whose parents are unable to care for them
• FAMILY OF PROCREATION


  refers to the family you yourself created.
• FAMILY OF ORIENTATION


  refers to the family where you came from.
• PAtriARCHAL


  full authority on the father or any male member of the family e.g., eldest son, grandfather
• MAtriARCHAL


  full authority of the mother or any female member of the family, e.g., eldest sister, grandmother
• EGALITARIAN


  husband and wife exercise a more or less amount of authority, father and mother decides
• DEMOCRATIC


  everybody is involved in decision making
• LAISSEZ-FAIRE


  "full autonomy"
• MAtriCENTRIC


  the mother decides/takes charge in absence of the father (e.g., father is working overseas)
• PAtriCENTRIC


  the father decides/ takes charge in absence of the mother
• PAtriLINEAL


  Affiliates a person with a group of relatives who are related to him though his father
• BILATERAL


  both parents
• MAtriLINEAL


  Related through mother
• PAtriLOCAL


  family resides / stays with / near domicile of the parents of the husband
• MAtriLOCAL


  live near the domicile of the parents of the wife