Personal
Development
Quarter 2 –
Module 4: Family
Structure and Legacies
Learning Competency
1. Appraise one’s family structure and the
type of care he/she gives and receives,
which may help in understanding
himself/herself better. (EsP-
PD11/12FSL-IId-11.1)
2. Make a genogram and trace certain
physical, personality, or behavioral
attributes through generation. (EsP-
PD11/12FSL-IId-e-11.2)
Understanding Family and Traditional
Family Structure:
- According to functionalist George Murdock, a family is
defined as “a social group characterized by common
residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. “
- It includes adults and both sexes, at least two of whom
maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and one or
more children.
- The concept of family is not necessarily linked to the concept
of marriage and it is the social relationship between
individuals that is important, not the legal framework to their
relationship.
- Family groups can involve any number of adults who maintain
socially-approve sexual relationships.
- The family group involves both adults and children
Traditional Family Structure
- It is considered a family support system which involves two
married individuals providing care and stability for their
biological offspring.
1. Nuclear family: Basically consists of two generations of
family members living in the same household.
2. Extended family: This type of family structure generally
consists of three or more generations living in the same
household (or very close proximity). The usual name for
this type of family is a "vertically extended group" because
the "extensions" to the basic family group are inter-
generational (that is, "between generations" - they involve
grandparents rather than uncles or aunts).
3. Step-families: This type of family is usually nuclear
in form and involves parents, children of either
spouse from a first marriage and (possibly) children
from their present marriage
4. Single parent family: This can be either a father or
a mother who is individually 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.
5. Adoptive family: A family where one or more of
the children has been adopted. Any structure of
family may also be an adoptive family.
6. Blended family: A family that consists of members
from two (or more) previous families.
[Link] separated families: A
family member is separated from the
rest of the family. This may be due to
employment far away; military service;
hospitalization; etc.
[Link] family: A family where one or
more of the children is legally, a
temporary member of the household
9. Gay or Lesbian family
10. Bi- racial or multi-racial family
[Link] –racial adoptive family
[Link] family
[Link] family
GENOGRAM
- It is a graphic representation of a family tree that
displays a detailed data on relationships among
individuals.
- It a more complex family three because it
describes not only the family’s physical and
social relationships but also the emotional
connections and other family attributes.
- It was first developed and popularized in clinical
settings by Monica McGoldrick and Randy
Gerson in their book published in 1985
GENOGRAM
- It is widely used by various groups of
people in a variety of fields such as
medicine, psychology, social work,
genealogy, generic research, and
education.
- It is also known as McGoldrick-Gerson
study.
- Murray Bowen invented the concept of
the genogram as part of his family
systems model in the 1970s.