FAMILY
STRUCTURES
AND LEGACIES
Personal
Development
GENOGRAM/ FAMILY TREE
It is a useful tool for gathering information about a
person's family. This visual representation of a
family can help us to identify patterns or themes
within families that may be influencing or driving
a person's current behavior.
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SYMBOLS FOR DRAWING THE
GENOGRAM
FEMALE SYMBOL- NAME,
AGE
MALE SYMBOL- NAME,
AGE UNKNOWN GENDER
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SYMBOLS FOR DRAWING THE
GENOGRAM
MARRIED- ADD THE YEAR AND
AGES
DE FACTO RELATIONSHIP-
COMMENCEMENT DATE OR AGES
SEPARATION- DATE OR AGES
DIVORCE- DATE OR AGES
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GENOGRAM
List children in birth order and put names and ages either
within the symbol or underneath.
DEATH- ADD DATE IF KNOWN
USED TO ENCLOSE THE MEMBERS
LIVING TOGETHER CURRENTLY.
CONFLICTUAL RELATIONSHIP
VERY CLOSE
DISTANT RELATIONSHIP
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FAMILY STRUCTURE
The traditional family structure is considered a family
support system that involves two married individuals
providing care and stability for their biological
offspring. However, this two-parent nuclear family
has become less prevalent, and alternative family
forms have become more common. The family is
created at birth and establishes ties across
generations. Those generations, the extended family
of aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins, can all
hold significant emotional and economic roles for the
nuclear family.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
1. NUCLEAR FAMILY
A family unit consisting of at most a
father, mother, and dependent
children. It is considered the
“traditional” family.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
2. EXTENDED FAMILY
A family consisting of parents and
children, along with either
grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or
uncles, cousins etc.
In some circumstances, the extended
family
comes to live either with or in
3 place of a member of the nuclear
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
3. STEP FAMILIES
Two families brought together due
to divorce, separation, and
remarriage.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
4. SINGLE PARENT 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. The other parent may
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
5. ADOPTIVE FAMILY
A family where one or more of the
children has been adopted. Any
structure of a family may also be an
adoptive family.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
6. BI-RACIAL OR MULTI-RACIAL
FAMILY
A family where the parents are
members of different racial
identity groups.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
7. Trans-Racial Adaptive Family
A family where the adopted child
is of a different racial identity than
the parents.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
8. BLENDED FAMILY
A family that consists of members
from two (or more) previous
families.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
9. CONDITIONALLY SEPARATED
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.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
10. FOSTER 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.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
11. GAY OR LESBIAN 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.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
12. IMMIGRANT FAMILY
A family where the parents have
immigrated to another country as
adults. Their children may or may not
be immigrants. Some family members
may continue to live in the country of
origin, but still be significant figures in
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the life of the child.
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KINDS OF FAMILY STRUCTURES
13. MIGRANT FAMILY
A family that moves regularly to places where
they have employment. The most common
form of migrant family is farm workers who
move with the crop seasons. Children may
have a relatively stable community of people
who move at the same time - or the family
may know no one in each new setting.
Military families may also lead a migrant
life, with frequent relocation, often on
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ACTIVITY
Choose any of the ff.
- Compose a song
- Write a poem
- Draw a poster
that will best describe and tell us about your
family.
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