extended family

Examples of extended family in the following topics:

• Family Structures

  • Those generations, the extended family of aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins, can all hold significant emotional and economic roles for the nuclear family.
  • The extended family consists of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
  • In some circumstances, the extended family comes to live either with or in place of a member of the nuclear family.
  • For example, when elderly parents move in with their children due to old age, this places large demands on the caregivers, particularly the female relatives who choose to perform these duties for their extended family.
  • An American family composed of the mother, father, children, and extended family.

• Child Care

  • Census Bureau Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), over thirty-six percent of families of preschoolers with working mothers primarily relied on child care in the home of a relative, family day care provider or other non-relative.
  • Almost twenty-six percent of families used organized child care facilities as their primary arrangement.
  • In families where children live with one or both of their parents, the child care role may also be taken on by the child's extended family.
  • If a parent or extended family is unable to care for the children, orphanages and foster homes are a way of providing for children's care, housing, and schooling.
  • In-home care typically is provided by nannies, au-pairs, or friends and family.

• Aging

  • The elderly can receive care from a variety of different sources, including their families, the state, the private sector, and charitable institutions.
  • Traditionally, the extended family would look after the older generation.
  • While this role is still attributed to the family in many parts of the world, particularly in non-Western nations, the modern family has evolved in such a way that care for the aged is now provided for by the state and various charitable organizations.
  • Some of the main reasons why elders are less likely to be taken care of exclusively by their families include the decreasing size of families, the increased longevity of the elderly, the geographic dispersion of families, and the fact that women have become more educated and commonly work outside the home.

• Homelessness

  • After the economic crash of 2008, many families were no longer able to make payments on their mortgages and were evicted from their homes.
  • Oftentimes, these families either stayed for short periods with extended family or lived in their vehicles.
  • Although most homeless people are single men, in tough economic times, families are at increased risk of homelessness due to unemployment.
  • When markets crash, even families that appeared to be middle class may suddenly become homeless.
  • Family support can provide a buffer against homelessness; those who lack support are at increased risk.

• What is a family?

  • But what exactly is a family?
  • Why do families exist?
  • And what about the family pet?
  • What many people consider a family is not the only family form; families are diverse in both form and function.
  • Patria potestas extended over adult sons with their own households: A man was not considered a paterfamilias while his own father lived.

• The Feminist Perspective

  • Feminists view the family as a historical institution that has maintained and perpetuated sexual inequalities.
  • Second-wave feminism went a step further by seeking equality in family, employment, reproductive rights, and sexuality.
  • Although there was great improvements with perceptions and representations of women that extended globally, the movement was not unified and several different forms of feminism began to emerge: black feminism, lesbian feminism, liberal feminism, and social feminism.
  • Her role in the family is celebrated on Mother's Day.
  • In most family structures, the mother is both a biological parent and a primary caregiver.

• Continuous REGE for geodesic distances (Padgett's marriage data)

  • By default, the algorithm extends the search to neighborhoods of distance 3 (though less or more can be selected).
  • Note that the isolated family (Pucci) is treated as a separate class.

• Dictatorship and Totalitarianism

  • Dictatorships govern without consent of the people and in totalitarian dictatorships the power to govern extends to all aspects of life.
  • A dictator's power can originate in his or her family, political position, or military authority.

• Social Isolation

  • These include living alone, family violence, loss of a spouse, aging-related cognitive impairments and disabilities, and transport issues.
  • Extended social isolation can contribute tolate life depression, which is a major depressive episode occurring for the first time in an individual over sixty years of age.
  • Social isolation is a larger problem for elders now than in the past, due to the decreasing size of families in Western countries.

• The Nature of a Family

  • In sociological literature, the most common form of this family is often referred to as a nuclear family.
  • A "matrilocal" family consists of a mother and her children.
  • Common in the western societies, the model of the family triangle, where the husband, wife, and children are isolated from the outside, is also called the oedipal model of the family.
  • This family arrangement is considered patriarchal.
  • As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for sociologists of the family.