The family
A group of people related by blood
marriage or adoption
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Types of family
• Nuclear: parents and children
• Lone parent: one parent and children
• Extended: Parents children and others e.g.
grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins etc..
• Blended: family consisting of partners with
children from previous relationships
Functions of the family
• To provide the physical needs of the family e.g.
food, clothing, shelter, protection from danger.
• To provide the emotional needs of the family e.g.
love, security.
• To help the development of family members e.g.
socialisation, life skills.
Rights & Responsibility
• A right is something to which we are entitled
• A responsibility is something for which we are
answerable
Rights of Children (under 18)
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Love and understanding
To grow up in the care of their family
Education until 16
Protection from cruelty and neglect
Rights of Adults ( 0ver 18)
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To work
To vote
Consumer rights
To sign legal documents
To marry
Responsibilities of children
• To show respect to others.
• To obey parents and people in authority
• To learn how to behave in their society
Responsibility of Adolescents
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To respect themselves and others
To co-operate at home
To participate in school
To behave properly in their society
Responsible teenagers
• Are good role models for younger children
• Have a good relationship with siblings, parents and
grandparents.
• Have a good influence on peers
Roles
• A role is a ways were are expected to behave in
life.
• Every person has different roles to play at
different times.
• Eg daughter, sister, friend, student, girlfriend,
club athlete.
Parent’s Role
• Reproducing/adopting/fostering and caring for
children.
• Providing financially for children
• Providing education for children until 16
• In the past fathers earned money, mothers cared
for children.
• Now these roles have changed
Children’s role
• Behave in a way normal for their age.
• Teenagers expected to be more responsible and
independent.
• The influence of peers is stronger which can cause
tension between teenagers and their parents
• Good communication between teenagers and
parents can solve this problem
Gender Roles
• Gender means being male and female
• Males and females are expected to act differently
• They learn this from observing the males and
females around them
• Equal treatment of males and females is called
gender equality
Stereotyping
• Means seeing things or people in a set or fixed
way.
• Examples:
• All mechanics are men
• All black people can sing
• All nurses are women
Social norms
• An acceptable way of behaving in society.
• People are expected to behave in a responsible so
that conflict in society is avoided.
Relationships
• An interaction between people
• Our first relationships are within our own family
• If we have good relationships within our family we
find it easier to form relationships outside the
family
Relationships
• Ideally relationship between parents is close, loving,
equal and respectful, sharing the responsibility for the
family.
• Relationships between parents and children should be
loving, secure and respectful. It is a parents
responsibility to discipline children.
• Relationships between siblings should be close and
caring, they should be treated equally by their parents.
Communication
• How we relate to one another.
• Involves body language, speaking and listening
• When we first meet someone we create an
impression by how we look and communicate.
• Don’t always your first impression, get to know
people.
Listening
• A skill
• Good communicators:
Speak clearly
Listen carefully
Look people in the eye
Conflict
• Everyone has disagreements with other people
from time to time.
• Conflict can only be solved by communicating with
the other person or people.