family Flashcards
(21 cards)
That is, a social, emotional and spiritual legacy
passed on from parent to child.
heritage
In order to prosper, our children need an enduring sense of security and stability nurtured in an environment of safety and love.
emotional legacy
As spiritual beings, we adopt attitudes and beliefs about spiritual matters from one source or another. As parents, we need to take the initiative and present our faith to our children.
spiritual legacy
To really succeed in life, our children need to learn more than
techniques,
management accounting, reading, writing and geometry. They need to learn the fine art of relating to people.
social legacy
“a fundamental social group in society typically consisting
of one or two parents and their children.”
family
a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic
social unit.
Nuclear family
A family where Grandparents or Aunts and
Uncles play major roles in the children’s
upbringing.
Extended family:
A family where one or more of the children is legally a temporary
member of the household. This “temporary” period may be as short as a few days
or as long as the child’s entire childhood. Kinship care families are foster families
where there is a legal arrangement for the child to be cared for by relatives of
one of the parents
Foster family
A family where one or more of the children
has been adopted. Any structure of family may also be an
adoptive family.
Adoptive family
A family where the parents
are members of different racial identity groups.
Bi-racial or multi-racial family
A family where the adopted
child is of a different racial identity group than the parents.
Trans-racial adoptive family
A highly derogatory term used to
describe the homes of children from divorced families.
Broken home
(no broken family)
An arrangement where divorced
parents both have legal responsibility for their children.
Co-custody family
A family member is
separated from the rest of the family. This may be due
to employment far away; military service; incarceration;
hospitalization. They remain significant members of the
family
Conditionally separated families
A family member is
separated from the rest of the family. This may be due
to employment far away; military service; incarceration;
hospitalization. They remain significant members of the
family
Conditionally separated families
A family that consists of
members from two (or more) previous
families
Blended family
A family where one
or both of the parents’ sexual orientation
is gay or lesbian. This may be a two-parent
family, an adoptive family, a single parent
family or an extended family.
Gay or Lesbian family
A family that moves
regularly to places where they have
employment.
Migrant family
A family where the
parent/s have immigrated to other
countries. Their children may or may not
be immigrants. Some family members
may continue to live in the country of
origin.
Immigrant family
This can be either a father or a
mother who is singly responsible for the raising of a child. The child
can be by birth or adoption. They may be a single parent by choice
or by life circumstances.
Single parent family
These families live in more than
one country.
Transnational family
