What are the families - this question is asked by many people.
Experts highlight several types of familieswhich are determined according to several criteria.
Knowing them, a person can easily determine the type of family.
General concept
What is family?
A family is a group of people based on consanguinity or marriage.
People feel for each other love, respect, affection.
Experts consider family important social institution.
Thanks to him, a person learns basic moral and ethical values, gets support. Children appear in the family, the new generation is the continuation of the human race.
A person is born, forms and develops in the family. It is from his own people that he adopts a model of behavior, learns important life lessons, he is implanted with certain values.
In relation to family members, a person feels tenderness, affection, tries to take care of them, takes care.
Even when children leave the parental home, they keep in touch with their relatives, feel spiritual intimacy with a family. He feels warmth and tenderness in relation to his native people.
Types of marital status
Experts identify several types of marital status:
- not married. This suggests that the man has never been married;
- divorced / divorced. This means that the person has already been married, but at the moment he has been dissolved;
- married. A citizen is in a legal relationship.
There is another kind of marital status, which is popularly called "civil marriage". This means that people live together, but they are not legally married. There is no document confirming their union.
Typing Criteria
To identify the type of family, experts pay attention to these aspects:
- Composition. It matters how many people are in a family, how big it is.
- Maturity. There are young families when the spouses are not long married, and there are families whose marriage has been going on for several decades.
- Children. The family can have one child or many. There are alliances in which there are no children.
- Place of residence. A family can live in a house, apartment. The place can be both comfortable and completely uncomfortable.
- The nature of the interaction. It's about how spouses interact, what underlies their relationship, how they relate to each other.
- Spouse career. They can work both in different places and in one company. There are families in which spouses have achieved heights in professional activities, but there are many marriages where spouses do not pay much attention to their careers. This question is extremely individual.
- The value orientation of the family. It is about what values will be instilled in children in the first place, what moments parents will pay attention to first and foremost. This is of great importance in the process of personality formation.
In the process of determining the type of family, the role in which the family lives, its social homogeneity also plays a role.
Considering all the above factors, experts determine family type, categoryto which it belongs.
Determining the type of modern family
Modern family very different from the traditional. If several centuries ago there were several generations in the family. In the twenty-first century, families are much smaller.
Now there are only two generations in the family: parents and children. Children, as a rule, are born less than a few centuries ago. A woman and a man have the same rights, share responsibilities. Their partnership relations, all problems are solved together.
Such a description is suitable for a family called nuclear.
it new type families, when duties are divided between spouses, and in the house no more than two generations.
These are the closest relatives: parents and their children. The remaining relatives live separately.
Typology
To get acquainted with the typology of the family, you need to study the following table:
| Number of generations | Extended: several generations | Nuclear: two generations | |
| Number of parents | Full - both parents | Incomplete - one parent | |
| Number of children | Childless | One-child | Having many children |
| By type of domination | Patriarchal - the main man | Matriarchal - the main woman | Equality |
| By type of marriage | Polygamous - polygamy, polyandry | Monogamous - one spouse | |
Thus, the type of family depends on very many indicators. Not only the number of children matters, but also type of domination.
If several centuries ago families were predominantly patriarchal - the dominant role was occupied by a man, but now the relations between the spouses are equal.
The role of women in the family has changed, she has a lot more rights, and the responsibilities are shared equally with her husband.
The number of parents in a family also has a role: if a child is raised by only one parent, and not two, it cannot be considered complete. Only if the family has both parents family is complete.
Forms, types and characteristics
Experts identify several forms of marriage:
- Church. Spouses pronounce pledges of loyalty in the church.
- Actual. By law, there is no marriage, but citizens live together.
- Civil. Legal marriage, when there are documents on marriage. The name is often confused by the people with the actual marriage.
In fact, civilian - this is the marriage, when the spouses confirmed their relationship at the legal level.
- Morganatic. Families add up when spouses are from different social backgrounds.
- Temporary. Spouses decide to be together for a certain time, and then part. This is usually necessary to achieve a specific goal. Such a marriage is sometimes called fictitious.
- Polygyny. This is when one man has more than one wife. In some countries, such marriages are allowed, but in Russia they are prohibited by the state.
- Same sex. In marriage, people of the same sex. In some states, such marriages exist, in Russia they are prohibited.
There are several types of family.
The main ones are traditional, nuclear (affiliate).
Traditional family includes several generations.
In one house there are a lot of people who are relatives of each other. If a decision is made, the whole family takes part in it. However, the decision is made by the head of the family, usually a man.
Nuclear The (partner) family is a two-generation union. Only parents and children live in the house. Usually in such families the relations are equal, everything is decided jointly.
There is no head of the family, the spouses are not superior to each other, do not try to take over the seniority. Responsibilities are shared.
Extended the family resembles the traditional one; it implies living in the same house not only spouses, but also their relatives.
In such families, usually more than 2-3 children. Families are big, decisions are made together. For this type of family is not necessarily the presence of the head.
Types of relationships
Family relationships can also be different.
A type is known when one spouse treats the other as a child. This type is called parent-child relationship.
The spouse is not taken seriously, they talk to him as with a child. This can occur in relation to both the husband and the wife. Some couples try to avoid this, but there are those where this is welcome.
Affiliate type of relationship - the most common in the twenty-first century. Spouses are partners, absolutely equal. No one is trying to take a leading position. Decisions are made together, deliberately, and the choice is respected.
Sadomasochistic relationship when there is violence in the family. One of the spouses, or both at once relate to each other with aggression, prefer to solve issues by methods of violence. Usually, such families quickly fall apart.
One of the spouses ceases to tolerate this attitude. Beating, violence leads to a complete rupture of relations.
Psychologists say that it is impossible to build relationships on violence, in such families children grow up in an unhealthy atmosphere, therefore this type is very much condemned by society and the state.
There is another type of family relationship - fragmented. It is characterized by strong internal boundaries. From the outside, such alliances look good, and people are happy, but in fact, each family member lives in isolation.
People can live in different countries, rarely see each other. The spiritual connection in this type of relationship is almost absent. Spouses rarely communicate, but mutual respect is traced in their relationship.
Thus, there are many types of families. They classified according to different criteria, possess certain features and characteristics.
Knowing them, a person will never confuse one type of family from another.
They are completely different, but they exist in the twenty-first century in different countries of the world. In one state more common one type of family, and in another another.
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