Different Family Structures

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Different family structures.
We would all encourage and like children to be brought up in a structured family with a mother and father, but sadly that isn’t the case and we are seeing more and more now children from ‘broken families’ and children that come from different family structures that doesn’t involve a mother and family. It is now spoken and thought that children that do come from ‘different family structures’ that doesn’t involve a mother or a father isn’t all bad as long as they and receiving the love, care, attention, security, and all round health and self-care they need then it makes no difference to their life and learning.
It is very important to us at pre-school that we encourage all kinds of family structures and working …show more content…

Well a nuclear family is a family in which a child lives with mother, father and any other siblings they may or may not have.
A lot of the time in earlier years parents would have been married and children would have been welcomed into a wedded family although in this day and age we see more and more children that are introduced to unmarried families and families where parents are still together but aren’t married therefore the children often have a different last name to the mothers but the same as their fathers.
A nuclear family doesn’t just include a family where a child lives with mother and father, this also includes families in which children live with gay parents, this means the child may have 2 fathers or 2 mothers… this means that on mother’s day if the child has 2 mothers then nursery makes 2 cards, one for each mother and the same with in the child has 2 fathers then on fathers day nursery shall make 2 cards, one for each father.
Single parents…
Unlike a ‘nuclear family’ where the child grows up with bother fathers present sadly some children like in single parent homes, this may be the child just living with mother or the child just living with …show more content…

Extended families –
Some of our children that attend nursery live in what we call ‘extended families’ this basically means children that live with their parents as well as different family members, for example some children live with grandparents as well as their parents, or aunties, uncles and cousins as well as their parents, sometimes this is down to financial circumstances or the children’s families and sometimes this is purely down to tradition.
Foster families –
Some of the children we come into contact with sadly don’t live with their parents as instead live in foster families, this is due to the fact their own parents have been seen as unfit, not able to give the right care attention and self-care to the child and there has been safeguarding concerns that have been raised, investigated and seen as being of harm to the child.
Most of the children we come into contact with that are with foster care families it is just a temporary measure for the child and they will be placed back with parents and some of the foster carers that look after the children are other family

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