Topic from values education for education students, definition of family, classification of family, according to organization and membership, nuclear family, family of orientation, family of procreation, extended family, conjugal family, consanguineal family, according to place of residence, patrilocal family, matrolocal family, bilocal family, neolocal family, avunlocal family, according to descent, patrilineal descent, matrilineal descent, bilateral descent, according to authority, patriarcal family, matriarcal family, equalitarian family, matricentric family, according to form of marriage, monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, group marriage, functions of the family, family development tasks

1. JOURNEYING
BACK TO
ONE’S FAMILY
The Filipino Family in Retrospect

2. What is the family?
The family is the basic social
institution and the primary group in
any society, which public policy
cherishes and protects.
It may be viewed as a subsystem with
interacting personalities supported
by set of norms, attitudes and values
drawn mostly from the larger society.

3. What is the family?
The family may be viewed as an
agency playing a vital role in the
development of one’s personality
and in the process of values
formation and development.
It is the group that first socializes the
individual and provides for his basic
social needs.

4. “The family is a
social group
characterized by
common
residence,

5. “The family is a group of
persons united by the
ties of marriage, blood
or adoption,
constituting a single
household, interacting
and communicating with
each other in their

6. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
1. According to organization and
membership
a. NUCLEAR FAMILY
composed of father, mother, and children in
the union recognized by the society
*2 kinds:
(1) Family of orientation into which one is born,
reared and socialized
(2) Family of procreation established by the
person by marriage

7. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
1. According to organization and
membership
b. EXTENDED FAMILY
two or more nuclear families related to
each other economically and socially
*2 kinds:
(1) Conjugal Familyconsiders spouse & children
as prime importance (marriage bond)
(2) Consanguineal Familyconsiders nucleus of
blood relatives as more important than spouse

8. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
2. According to place of
residence
a. PATRILOCAL FAMILY
newlywed couple live with/ near the
residence of the parents of the groom
b. MATRILOCAL FAMILY
newlywed couple live with/ near the
residence of the parents of the bride

9. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
2. According to place of
residence
c. BILOCAL FAMILY
provides newlywed couple freedom to select where
to reside (near the groom’s/bride’s family?)
d. NEOLOCAL FAMILY
permits newlywed couple to reside independently of
their parents
e. AVUNLOCAL FAMILY
newlywed couple reside with/ near the maternal

10. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
3. According to descent
a. PATRILINEAL DESCENT
affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen
related to him through his father
b. MATRILINEAL DESCENT
 affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen
related to him through his mother
c. BILATERAL DESCENT
 affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen
related to him through his father and mother

11. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
4. According to authority
a. PATRIARCAL FAMILY
authority is vested in the oldest
member (male), often the father
b. MATRIARCAL FAMILY
 authority is vested in the mother or
the mother’s kin

12. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
4. According to authority
c. EQUALITARIAN FAMILY
husband and wife exercise a more or less
equal amount of authority
d. MATRICENTRIC FAMILY
 absence of the father (i.e. working abroad)
gives mother a dominant position in the
family however, father shares with
mother in terms of decision-making

13. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
5. According to form of
marriage
a. MONOGAMY
permits man to have only one spouse
at a time
b. POLYGAMY
plural marriage; assumes any of the
following: polygyny, polyandry, and

14. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
5. According to form of marriage
POLYGYNY
marriage of one man to two or more women at a
time (common household, economic cooperation, and reproduction)
POLYANDRY
marriage of one woman to two or more men at the
same time
GROUP MARRIAGE
marriage or union of several men & several women
at a time

15. FUNCTIONS OF THE FAMILY
1. The family is the unit of reproduction.
2. It performs the function of biological
maintenance.
3. The family socializes the members.
4. It provides status to the members.
5. It serves as an important mechanism for social
control.
6. The family serves as the first and foremost
school where every child learns the major
lessons in life.
7. It performs such other functions to meet the
material and economic, religious and social

16. FAMILY development tasks
1. Physical maintenance
providing shelter, food, clothing, health care, etc.
2. Allocation of resources
meeting family needs and costs, apportioning
material goods, facilities, space, etc.
3. Division of labor
assigning responsibility & managing household
4. Socializing the family members
guiding internalization of increasing maturity

17. FAMILY development tasks
5. Reproduction, recruitment, and release of family members
bearing or adopting children and rearing them for
release at maturity, incorporating new members
by marriage (in-laws, step-parents, guests,
relatives, etc.)
6. Maintenance of order
providing means of communication, establishing
types and intensity of interaction, and patterns
of affection by administering sanctions insuring
conformity to group norms

18. FAMILY development tasks
7. Placement of members in the larger society
fitting into the community, relating to church,
school, organizational life, political and economic
systems
8. Maintenance of motivation and morale
rewarding members for achievements, satisfying
individual needs for acceptance, encouragement
and affection, meeting personal and family crises,
refining a philosophy of life and sense of family
loyalty through rituals and festivities