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Families play a vital role in shaping our identity and emotional well-being. Discover different family types, characteristics of healthy families, and tips for building and coping with family relationships effectively.
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Family Relationships are Important! • They teach us how to love and what being loved is like. • They teach us who we are, who we want to be, and what feeling accepted or rejected is like. • They are powerful because they influence our emotions and help shape our character.
Nuclear Family • A family in which a mother, a father, and one or more children live together.
Blended Family • A family that results when divorced or widowed parents remarry; The parents and their respective children from previous marriages live in the home together
Single-Parent Family • A family with one parent living at home with the children.
Extended Family • An emotionally close family that includes relatives outside the central family unit.
Couple Family • A family in which only a husband and wife live together in a healthy family.
Adoptive Family • It is a legal process through which adults are given permanent guardianship of children who are not their biological children.
Foster Families • A person or married couple who is not related to the children agree to house and raise the children for a period of time.
Characteristics of Healthy Families • Effective Communication: This helps prevent misunderstandings, build healthy relationships, and express oneself.
Characteristics of Healthy Families • Respect: As families grow they learn to show respect for each other. • Respect means refraining from verbally or physically hurting another person. • Honoring each other’s privacy • Treating other’s possessions with care.
Characteristics of Healthy Families • Commitment: means being dedicated to recognizing and achieving what is best for family members.
Characteristics of Healthy Families • Love: a feeling we receive from others in the family express affection and unconditional support to us. • Healthy family members encourage, strengthen, and show compassion towards each other.
Building Healthy Family Relationships • Improve how you behave toward your parents by being mature. • Show your family love, compassion, and respect. • Being considerate to others. • Listen to what parents ask to be done. • Helping others with chores or projects.
Tips for Coping with Family Problems • Confront the problem. • Evaluate the problem as best you can. • Take action • Don’t give up.