Family Theory Flashcards
Cohabitation
People who live together who choose not to be married
The communal family
People working together with the same purpose
Methods of adoption
Agency
International
Private
8 essential tasks
Physical maintenance Allocation of resources Maintenance of order Socialization Division of labor Responsibility, reproduction and release of family members Placement of members into larger society Motivation and Morale
Family life cycles
Stages
- Marriage in family
- Early child bearing
- Pre school aged
- School aged
- Adolescent
- Launching stage
- Middle years
- Retirement
Tasks of family with school aged children
Promoting health and socialization of outsider of home
Tasks of adolescence stage
Diff from previous, which was about unity
Now it’s about freedom and loosening ties
Tasks of launching stage
Boomerang children
Roles of parents to support group
Family of middle years tasks
Letting go, family returns to two unit
“Empty nest syndrome”
Theories related to CFAM
Postmodernism Systems Cybernetics Communication Change Biology of Cognition
3 Parts to CFAM Model
- Structural –> internal (geno), external (Eco)
- Developmental
- Functional
Dyad family
Two adults who live together, with or without marriage
No kids