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Do you know what is a family?

It can be understood like a organization, in which the parents with his children can be unify with the comunication and interaction, they form part of the society in where they live.

Most of this families need help to work well, so they have to follow or be guded by norms that the society have. This rules or norms are diferent depending where do you live.

Thats what we understood by family, but ¿Do you know what exactly a family is?

There are a lot of definitions but let’s be brief and precise. The family is a social intitucion that unites people in groups to see farther in the bearing and raising of children.

What is a family unit?

A group to be considered a family depends again where do you live, but in the case of countrys like Mexio and United States it can be considered when they are related by blood, marriage or adoption.

Which are the global variations of a family?

Extended Family: Everyone with shared blood

Nuclear Family: Base don marriage

Mono-parental Family: composed with just one parent and his children.

Are there stages of life?

Of course and there are four of them which are…

1) Courtship and romantic love

2) Settling in

3) Child rearing

4) Later life

Which are the family functions?

1)The social placement

2) The sexual activity

3) The socialization

4) The material and emotional security

5) Holds the society

Do you know that they are family types?

Do you know what type is your family?

There are 4 types, let’s check

1) Authoritarian: has high control and low warmth.

2) Permissive: has low control and high warmth.

3) Rejecting: has low control and low warmth.

4) Authoritative: has high control and high warmth.

"family." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 1 May 2014. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/family>.

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