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Families
Health Class
Mr. Echols
Objectives/Standards
• Lesson Objectives: The student will be able to:
-Identify the different types of families
-Identify the 2 functions of a family
-Know which type family they belong to
• State Standards:
Standard 4- Students analyze the influence of culture,
media, technology and other factors on health.
Standard 7- Students demonstrate the ability to advocate
for personal, family and community health.
Functions of a Family
• Primary support system to meet your basic
needs.
• Help prepare you to live independently in
the world.
The Nuclear Family
• Consists of parents and one or more
children sharing a household.
• Parents are both the biological parents of
child/children.
The Single-Parent Family
• Only one parent lives with the child or
children.
• Most often the parent is the mother.
• Causes: Divorce
Had child out of wedlock.
Husband or wife is deceased.
The Extended Family
• Consists of one or more relatives in
addition to the nuclear or single-parent
family.
• Examples: Grandparents, Aunt, Uncle,
Cousin, Niece, or Nephew.
The Blended Family
• Type of nuclear family in which one or both
people have been married before.
• Each may have a child/children from a
previous marriage.
• Examples: Stepparents, stepbrothers,
stepsisters, half-brothers, half-sisters.
The Adoptive Family
• The children are not related by birth to the
parents.
• Through legal procedure, parents adopt
child and care for them as if they were
their children by birth.
• Can be a nuclear, single-parent,
or blended family.
The Foster Family
• One or more of the children are not the
birth children of parent/parents.
• Government agencies arrange for child to
stay with family for an extended period of
time.
• Can be nuclear, single-parent, or blended.
The Other Family
• Married couples with no children.
• Homosexual Couple
• People who band together and take care
for each other.
• Foreign-Exchange student, or a Group
Home.
T.V. Shows
• Nuclear Family Shows
T.V. Shows
• Single-Parent Shows
T.V. Shows
• Extended Family Shows
T.V. Shows
• Blended Family Shows
T.V. Shows
• Adoptive Family Shows
T.V. Shows
• Foster Family Shows
T.V. Shows
• Other Family Shows
Family Assignment
(15 points)
• Tell me in a paragraph the following:
-What type of family do you belong to?
-Has your family type ever changed?
-Does your family meet the functions of a
family, why/why not?