Social Institution - Family and Religion

Question 1

What is a family?

Answer 1

A family is an intimate domestic group made up of people related to one another by bonds of blood, sexual mating, or legal ties.

Question 2

What are the roles of a family?

Answer 2

The family is the primary unit for socializing children, a major source of practical and emotional support, helps regulate sexual activity and reproduction, and provides social identity.

Question 3

What are the functions of a family?

Answer 3

The family provides home and physical amenities, economic functions, educational functions, religious functions, health-related functions, recreational functions, and cultural functions.

Question 4

What are the different family structures?

Answer 4

Nuclear Family, Single Parent, Step Families, Extended Family, Grandparent Family, Others.

Question 5

What is Stage 1 of family development?

Answer 5

Beginning family: The couple establishes their home but do not yet have children.

Question 6

What is Stage 2 of family development?

Answer 6

Childbearing family: From the birth of the first child until that child is 2 1/2 years old.

Question 7

What is Stage 3 of family development?

Answer 7

Family with Pre-schoolers: When the oldest child is between the ages of 2 1/2 and 6.

Question 8

What is Stage 4 of family development?

Answer 8

Family with School age children: When the oldest child is between the ages of 6 and 13.

Question 9

What is Stage 5 of family development?

Answer 9

Family with Teenagers: When the oldest child is between the ages of 13 and 20.

Question 10

What is the Launching stage in family development?

Answer 10

From the time the oldest child leaves the family for independent adult life till the time the last child leaves.

Question 11

What is Stage 7 of family development?

Answer 11

Empty nest: From the time the children are gone till the marital couple retires from employment.

Question 12

What is Stage 8 of family development?

Answer 12

Aging Family: From retirement till the death of the surviving marriage partner.

Question 13

What is a maturational crisis?

Answer 13

A life crisis in which usual coping mechanisms are inadequate in dealing with stress common to a particular stage in the life cycle or with stress caused by a transition from one stage to another.

Question 14

What are some developmental periods with increased crisis potential?

Answer 14

Adolescence, marriage, parenthood, midlife, retirement.

Question 15

What is a family crisis?

Answer 15

The family’s inability to adapt to change and to solve problems, leading to disorganization.

Question 16

What are examples of family crises?

Answer 16

Cheating on one’s partner, feeling suicidal, drinking too much, physical and sexual abuse, drug use, divorce.

Question 17

What are some coping mechanisms?

Answer 17

Acting Out, Altruism, Attack, Avoidance, Conversion, Crying, Denial, Displacement, Dissociation, Distancing, Emotionality.

Question 18

What are health-seeking behaviors?

Answer 18

Actions based on a personal decision to promote wellness or recovery from an illness or disease.

Question 19

What factors shape health-seeking behaviors in families?

Answer 19

Socioeconomic, social, and structural factors.

Question 20

What are some crisis management strategies?

Answer 20

Counseling, prayer, discussion within the family, seeking audience with trusted family friends.