family ties

• Family


  Foremost unit that gave you the first experience of the world
• Procreation


  The family is an institution recognized to perform the duty to procreate & raise their young
• Economic provision

  Caring for children includes taking care of the needs (food, shelter, clothing)
• Education


  Remains one of the perfect legacies of parents to their children
• Love: 'Family is where life begins & love never ends'
• Social interactions in family

  • Build social ties, develop language & behavior, promote learning
• Family's role

  The first teacher, to instill proper behavior & good character
• Sense of security

  Family offers a stable companionship
• Structures of family

  • Nuclear family
  • Extended family
  • Family with working parents
  • Single parent family
  • Blended family
  • Childless family
  • Other family setups
• Nuclear family


  Traditional type, two parents + children
• Extended family


  Parents + children + relatives have common goals at home
• Family with working parents


  Both parents work to support the family
• Single parent family


  Mother/father alone cares for the child
• Blended family


  Consists of a couple in which both have children from previous relationships
• Childless family


  Couples do not have children by choice or due to certain circumstances
• Other family setups


  Couples live together & share house/responsibilities, not legally married but live together, can adapt children or take care of a child from a previous relationship
• Nurturing family relationships

  • Time
  • Love
  • Commitment
• Time


  Spend time with your family & give it good moments, memories are made with time spent together
• Love


  Everyone needs love, family is the first to show it
• Commitment


  Commit yourself into doing what's good & better for your family
• functions of a family

  • procreation
  • economic provision
  • love
  • socialization
  • sense of security