 Solve
complex problems in a half hour
 Incredibly witty
 Unusually attractive
 Ridiculous
 Some show the “ideal” image
Can you think of any examples??
View: Full House
Family Patterns
 Match the term that best matches each
statement
 Maintain
family bonds
 Turn to friends if they have little or no close
family

Friends become their family
 Do
not have to coordinate with anyone else’s
schedule
 Time to devote to their career, interests, and
community involvement
 Feeling of independence
 Advantages:


Have time to focus on each other
Two incomes
 Disadvantages:

Careers

Advantages:
Responsibilities shared
 More energy/time for children
 Having another adult around


Disadvantages:

Expense for childcare
What if one parent stayed home – advantages/disadvantages?
 Juggling
all the responsibilities
 Young

child – age 4
Clean up after themselves
 Preteen

Help out around the house
 Teenage


– age 12
– age 17
Help out around the house
Get a job to help with the bills
 Provide
and manage income
 Take care of all household tasks
 Give love and guidance to children
 More

independence
Self-sufficient
 Less
exposure to conflict
 Divorce:
39%
 Separated but not divorced: 24%
 Death of a parent: 6%
 Never married:31%
 Husband,
wife, and children from previous
relationships
 Related by marriage, but not birth
 Family members become stepmother/father/brother/sister
 Children born into family become
half-brother/sister to existing
children
 Nuclear
families are related by birth
 Blended families are related by marriage
Will members of blended or nuclear families be
better at getting along with others outside of
the family?
 Benefit:

Important resource for each other
 Problem:


Many personal types
May take advantage of family ties
 Cannot
have children on their own
 Prefer to take care of those in need
 Adopt a relative
 Adoptive
families go
through legal processes
 Foster families only take
care of children
temporarily
 Receive money from the
government
 Financial
management of child’s assets
 Legal responsibility to provide shelter, education,
and medical care
 Family
Structures
 View
an episode of Modern Family and
identify the different family structures
 Family
structure cartoon assignment
 With your assigned family structure, create a
cartoon about an issue this family type may
face.
 Make sure that to include an explanation of
your cartoon and how the issue relate to the
family structure
1.
2.
3.
4.
Atmosphere of the home
The way the family manages
Dependence level of members
Family’s values
 Allows
people to make the best of
themselves and each other
 It doesn’t matter if they feel love/secure
 Autocratic

One person makes all major decisions
 Democratic

Decisions made by more than one person
Advantages/disadvantages of each??
 Feels
confining and limits people
 Members rely too heavily on each other
 Their needs blend and are less aware of their
individuality
 Shy away from outside world
 Read
the given case study and answer the
questions below.
 Major

decisions must be faced
Career/financial decisions
 You
are still getting to know each other
Where to live?
1.

Close to work or family?
Career decisions
2.

Stay at home to raise kids?
Finances
3.

Joint bank accounts?
 New
members added to family
 Much focus on home and family life
 Children
in school
 Focus on activities outside of the home


Teens spending more time with friends
More independence
 Children
leaving home
 Your oldest is a senior in college and your
youngest just started their first year at
college, are your parenting stages over?

May extend if/when children move back home
from college
 Home
with children gone
 Leaves parents without a purpose
 Time

of career peaks
Making more money than ever before!
 Children

no longer and expense
More money to save/spend
 Family
problems
 Both parents have full time jobs
 Financial

concerns
Get a new job after retiring?
 What
to do with their time
 NO!!
 People
can remarry and go back to parental
stages
 Couples may not have children
 Could be in the launching stage and have
another child
 Retire and then have kids
 Grandparents raising kids at home
Beginning Stage
Parental Stage
1.
2.
a)
b)
c)
3.
4.
Expanding years
Developing years
Launching years
Middle Age Stage
Retirement Stage
 Read
each situation and identify which stage
of the family life cycle is described
 Divide
a paper plate into 8 sections by either
folding the plate or using colored
pencils/ruler
 Read through instructions to determine what
information should be included in each
section
 Must be colored!
 When
in groups of 2-3, a stage of the family
life cycle will be assigned to your group.
 As a group, make a skit revolving around a
situation that typically occurs for a family in
the stage you have been assigned
 Each person in the group should speak at
least 5 times
 Present the skits to the class