Community Health Nursing - The Family PDF

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING The Empty Nesters - the term “dyad family” can also refer to couples whose children - THE FAMILY have grown and left home, returning to a...

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING The Empty Nesters - the term “dyad family” can also refer to couples whose children - THE FAMILY have grown and left home, returning to a two-person household. DEFINITION OF FAMILY - The family is the basic unit of Extended Family society, and is shaped by all forces - A family structure consisting of three surrounding it. It is defined in various generations living together ways by different sources: - This type of family typically includes grandparents, parents and children The National Statistical Coordination Board all residing in the same household or (2008) - defines family as “a group of in close proximity. persons usually living together and composed of the head and other persons Blended Family related to the head by blood, marriage, or - Is a union where one or both adoption. It includes both the nuclear and spouses bring a child from a extended family” previous marriage into a new living arrangement Johnson (2000) - describes family as a - The defining feature of a blended “social unit interacting with the large society” family is the presence of children from previous relationships in the Allen, et al. (2000) characterizes a family as new family unit “people together because of birth, marriage, adoption or choice.” Compound Family Multiple Spouses - when a man has more Friedman, et al. (2003) offer another than one wife. definition, “a family is two or more persons Legal Framework - Philippine Decree No. who are joined together by bonds of sharing 1083: Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the and emotional closeness and who identify Philippines. themselves as being part of the family.” Cohabitating Family TYPES OF FAMILY - arrangement/common-law spouses - Legal status: unmarried Nuclear Family Family of Marriage - composed of husband, Single-Parent Family wife and their immediate children - Separation: one cause of Children - Natural, adopted or both. single-parent families is separation between spouses Dyad Family - Death of Spouse: the death of a New Husband and Wife - a dyad family spouse can result in a single-parent consists of a newly married couple, family structure representing the beginning stage of family - Out of Wedlock: pregnancy out of formation. wedlock can lead to single-parent family Gay or Lesbian Family - Matricentric: the mother or the - Lesbian Family: Cohabiting couple maternal figure, plays a central and of the same sex in a sexual dominant role in family life and relationship decision-making - Gay Couple - Patricentric: the father or the paternal figure holds a central and FUNCTIONAL FAMILY TYPES dominant role in family life and Family of Procreation: refers to the family decision-making. you yourself created Family Orientation: refers to the family FAMILY TYPES BASED ON DECENT where you came from Cultural norms, which affiliate a person with a particular group or kinsman for FAMILY TYPE BASED ON WHO MAKES certain social purposes. DECISIONS (AUTHORITY) - Patrilineal: affiliates with a person or - Patriarchal: full authority on the group of relatives who are related to father or any male member of the him through his father family. (eg. eldest son, grandfather) - Bilateral: both parents - Matriarchal: full authority of the - Matrilineal: related through mother mother or any female member of the family (eg. eldest daughter, FAMILY TYPES BASED ON RESIDENCE grandmother) - Bilocal: is one in which the husband - Egalitarian: husband and wife and wife agree to stay in both their exercise a more or less amount of families on a time sharing authority, father and mother decides arrangement. - Democratic: everybody is involved in - Patrilocal: the family unit lives within decision making or near the husband’s family. - Autocratic: refers to a family - Matrilocal: the married couple lives structure or dynamic where one with the woman’s family member, typically the head of the - Avunculocal: a married couple household, holds all the traditionally joins the household of decision-making power and one of the man’s maternal uncles. authority. - Neolocal: couple lives independently - Laissez Faire: also known as in a new home/location of their own permissive or hands-off parenting style, refers to a family dynamic in Family Code of the Philippines: which parents or caregivers take a - The basic law covering persons and more relaxed or non-directive family relations governs marriages, approach to raising their children. legal separations, property relations There is a minimal amount of between spouses, and parental structure, rules and guidance authority, among others. provided to children, allowing them - Marriage is a special contract of greater freedom and independence permanent union between a man to make their own choices and and woman entered into in decisions. accordance with law for the  establishment of conjugal and family life. - Same-sex marriage is not legally acceptable yet in the Philippines