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
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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
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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
Also in my setting the parents would work alongside the
With the author’s writing strategy of giving out many different examples it helps people see how families from each different social class effect their children’s
These three categories are influential to all people and altering any of them can drastically change someone’s life. With these ideas in mind, the one that affects children in dysfunctional families the most is the type of education they receive and as how much education their family achieved. While economics and social environment play an enormous role in child development, early childhood education is the most prevalent. Education can cultivate different ways of thinking and helps students make better decisions in life. Schools are a form of community and incorporate many social interactions outside of the home such as, the investment of educators, staff, parents and friends.
Throughout the book “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver, there are many examples of nontraditional families. Your traditional nuclear family would consist of a father, mother, a child maybe two. You do not see that in “The Bean Trees”. One example of a nontraditional family would be before Taylor and her mother Alice before Taylor left Kentucky. Then another nontraditional family would be Estevan and Esperanza.
The third modern foster home is called kinship care. Kinship care is when foster children to be placed in the home of a relative or person who knew the child before he or she was removed from the home (Reuters, 2014). The kinship foster care provider receives the emotional and financial support a foster parent would receive from a foster care agency, but already has an established relationship with the child
In 2014 there were 650,000 kids in foster care, that’s almost twice as much as Kansas City’s population of 467,007. Roughly 58,000 of these children were placed in an institution or group home instead of a traditional foster home. While these children will age out of the system 40% of them will find themselves homeless, 50% will have substance addiction, 25% will have not received a diploma or GED, only 3% will have received any college degrees and 17% of the young women will be pregnant. Even before they are blessed with their so called “independence” the average child in foster care will have an IQ 20 points lower than a child not in foster care and 33% of them will have moved elementary schools more than 5 times. The foster care system in
Not everyone has the luxury to have a traditional father and maternal figure. This book tells us the struggles of a
The third modern foster home is called Kinship, which refers to the care of children by relatives or close family friends. Kinship is the preferred resource because it maintains the children’s connections with the family. Ultimately, “58% of the children in care, that case plan goal is to reunify them with their biological parents or place them in the care of a relative. But for 26% of cases, parental rights have been terminated for one reason or another and the end goal is for the child to be adopted by a new family” (National Council For
There’s no typical family as nuclear families as in the past and not everyone lives in a multigenerational household. Same-sex families are also on the rise as sexual ambiguity is undergoing its own wave of acceptance in all political, social, and economic spheres. With the absence of the parents’ presence in the home due to an inability effectively balance work and home life, children could develop an emotional void/absence. Good communicative dialogue between children and their parents where the adults describe their work situation as it relates to the home to create resilient children, could possibly benefit the household.
We live in a complex, unpredictable world, filled with an array of family styles and personalities. Whether or not we recognize it, the family in which one is raised or currently resides plays a pivotal role in their development and opportunities. While we should not blame our circumstance on where we came from, it is crucial that we understand how our childhood influences why we are the way we are. One phenomenon that affects several families, particularly ones with low-income, is parentification. Parentification, also known as the role-reversal of a parent and a child, is not inherently harmful for a child, but it is important to look at the situation objectively and consider the risk-factors.
The children learned basic norms and values from the parents. The parents supply the economic needs for the child such as foods and education (ResviseSociology, 2014). In a family, different person performs different role and function such as a mother should take care of her child. The important is the child can feel the love and support from their parents (Gordon, 1997). Family dysfunction may appear in broken families, violent families and divorced families, etc.
Families can be regarded as the foundation of society. For Fleetwood (2012: 1), the importance of families is highlighted by the fact that it would be difficult to comprehend a society that could function without them. In addition, even though families and their compositions vary across societies and cultures, the family can be viewed as a universal social institution (Macionis & Plummer, 2012: 625. Specifically, according to Macionis and Plummer (2012: 625) and Neale (2000:1), it has the ability to unite individuals into cooperative groups via social bonds (kinship) and is ultimately experienced differently from individual to individual. However, the family can be a source of conflict, tension and inequality, which is why one of the key practices
The family can be defined as ‘any combination of two or more persons who are bound together by ties of mutual consent, birth and/or adoption and who, together, accept responsibility for the care and maintenance of group members through procreation or adoption, the socialisation of children and social control of members’ (UN, cited in McDonald 2003:80). However, the ‘family’ is
Maureen Samms-Vaughan’s article “Children Caught in the Crossfire” sends a very sensitive message to the families out there. The title encompasses the whole issue presented in the article. Vaughan creates a forum for families undergoing this issue, as well as for other families out there, to be educated about the severe consequences that the change in family structures have on children. Vaughan introduces her message by beginning with the thesis statement, “The change in family structure that children experience during their lives are not without consequences.” Even though the thesis would have been much more effective at the end of her introduction, it still helped to pave a path for the readers.
Family members may or may not be biologically related, share the same household, or be legally recognized” (Raney, 2015:6). In the series Modern family, it shows the dynamics of a 21st century family and how traditions and culture has evolved over the years. As opposed to “nuclear family” “No longer does the traditional family consist of two parents and two children; instead, more diverse and shifting family structures are becoming the norm.