Unit 3 Flashcards

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Extended family

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a family group consisting of parents, children, and other close relatives.

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Nuclear family

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A husband, wife, and their children

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6 functions of families

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Meeting physical needs 
Promoting emotional growth
Shaping social development
Aiding intellectual growth
Guiding moral growth
The total picture
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Families supply members with physical necessities like food, clothing, and shelter.
Maslow first need on the hierarchy
(6 functions of families)

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Meeting physical needs

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By showing love and acceptance, they help members feel emotionally secure.
(6 functions of families)

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Promoting emotional growth

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Basic social skills, such as sharing and communicating, are first learned in the family, then carried over into outside relationships
(6 functions of families)

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Shaping social development

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The family is the child’s first teacher, imparting knowledge, stimulating thinking skills, and encouraging creativity
(6 functions of families)

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Aiding intellectual growth

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Providing children with a code of conduct and a set of values gives them basis for acting and making decisions as they grow older
(6 functions of families)

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Guiding moral growth

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5 things that strengthen families

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Respect
Trust
Emotional support
Communication
Sharing
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No family meets all the needs of its members. Some families are better equipped to meet needs in some areas than others
(6 functions of families)

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The total picture

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People in strong families respect each other’s behaviors, abilities, needs, and opinions, even when they do not share them.
(strengthen families)

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Respect

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family members know they can count on each other for help and support. They confide in each other- their secrets, ambitions, and weaknesses.
(strengthen families)

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Trust

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Words and actions that reassure others and share positive feelings
(strengthen families)

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Emotional support

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This is essential because schedules and feelings are closely affected by other members
(strengthen families)

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Communication

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5 stages in the family life cycle

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Beginning stage
Parental stage
Launching stage 
Middle age stage 
Retirement stage
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One of the first lessons that a child learns when beginning to form relationships. Remains an important tool for building the deepening, more complex bonds of a strong family
(strengthen families)

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Sharing

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8 challenges families face

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New family members 
Moving
Job change 
Job loss
Divorce
Remarriage and blending
Illnesses and accidents 
Death
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Identify 1 of the 7 qualities of friendship

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Common interests
Loyalty
Empathy
Dependability 
Reciprocity
Forgiveness 
Caring
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As a couple establish a home in this stage, they learn about each other. They devise systems for living happily together. These systems may include organizing finances and setting up a schedule for doing household tasks

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Beginning stage

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Parents teach and train their young children and often have less time for activities as a couple

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Parental stage

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Children leave home to support themselves and develop their own lifestyles

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Launching stage

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After the children have left home, parents have time to focus on being a couple again

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Middle age stage

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This may mean freedom for travel and leisure activities. Some people find new work to supplement income

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retirement stage

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Blended family

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a husband and a wife, at least one of whom has at least one child from a previous relationship

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Single-parent family

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Family headed by one parent

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Adoptive family

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one or more children not born into a family are made permanent members of that family by law

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Foster family

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a couple or an individual assumes responsibility for the care of a child for an indefinite period of time

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Couples

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Married couples who choose not to have children.