The document discusses family roles and responsibilities. It describes the traditional roles of the father as head of household and breadwinner and the mother as homemaker, but notes these roles are changing as more families require both parents to work. It also discusses factors to consider when planning family size such as preferences, quality of life, and financial needs. The advantages of small families, like meeting children's needs and having parent attention, are outlined as well as disadvantages of large families, like neglect and health issues. Responsibilities of parents to children and of children to parents are also summarized.

1. The Family
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2. • The family is a socially recognized unit of people to
each other by kinship or by marital and legal ties.
• It is characterized by having a common
residence, shared financial resources, cooperation
among its members, and its commitment to a common
goal in life.
• Having children is one of the ultimate goals of
getting married.
• The married couple must decide if and when
they want to have children and what is the
size of the family that they can responsibly
raise.

3. Planning the Size of the Family
In planning the size of the family you should ponder the
following questions in yourself.
1. Which do you prefer, a big family or small one?
Why?
2. Do you think family size affects quality of living?
3. How is your family or living situation similar to
those of others in your neighborhood? How
does it differ?

4. Family Roles
• Father – being the head of the family, has to work and provide for
all the needs of the family.
• Mother – has the outmost responsibility to manage, direct and the
hold the family members together. It is also her duty to
administer the necessary disciplinary actions when such
are needed.
• However, in today’s society, this no longer holds true all
the time. To cope with the fast pace and cost of living,
both the father and the mother may have to play
multi-roles in the family. Both of them may have to work
and earn, and at the same time, maintain and manage the
family . They now exercise what we call as
shared parenting in performing their responsibilities.

5. Advantages of
Having Small Family:
1. The basic needs of children like food, clothing, and shelter, as well
as education, can be met by parents if they have fewer children.
2. Each of the children can get the same amount of attention, love and
care from the parents. Therefore, neglect can be avoided.
3. Parents can have more time to spare for themselves and not
be burdened from working day and night because they
have fewer children to support.
4. The family can have more time for bonding activities as
well as a little luxury because money can be saved if there
are fewer mouths to feed.
5. Families can afford to look for a better place to live in,
conducive to rearing children and far from danger.

6. Disadvantages of
Having Big Family:
1. There are fewer opportunities for each child to be given equal
care, attention, education, and guidance. Some of them might be
neglected because most of the parents’ time will be sent of he
younger children.
2. The health of the children might be taken for granted in favor
of the immediate needs of the family.
3. The family members have to settle for smaller portions of
food and other material things.
4. Proper health care can be adversely affected because
budget for it can be diverted to other needs like food,
education, or shelter.
5. Mothers who get pregnant either too young or too old are
prone to complications which endanger both the mother
and the child.

7. Responsibilities of Parents to
their Children
1.Provide Physical Care.
2.Inculcate Discipline.
3.Develop social competence.
4.Encourage Learning.
5.Provide opportunities for education
and self-development.
6.Inculcate Values.

8. Responsibilities of Children
towards their Parents
• With many responsibilities and obligations parents have
for their children, the children, in turn, have the
responsibilities and roles to play in the family.
These are:
1. To study hard.
2. To spend their allowance wisely.
3. To help in household as much as they can.