DIFFERENT KINDS OF FAMILIES
Have you ever wondered about what the word family means to you? It might mean your parents and your brothers and sisters or the whole extended string of cousins, uncles and aunts. It might be just your mother or just your grandparents. But whoever it includes, whatever it is, you know that is your family.
Families are not better or worse-they are just different. Look at the different kinds of families you can find in our society.
I. In these families, the nucleus is the biological or adoptive parents of the children with an extended web of relatives. _____________________.
II. In this family there is only one parent in the home who provides all the care. This is currently increasing in most developed countries including Chile. _______________.
III. These families are generally created by divorce and remarriage where biologically unrelated children live in the same household. __________________________.
IV. Sometimes children are reared by their grandparents when their biological parents have died or can no longer take care of them or work full-time. _______________
V. In these families, the parents usually live and work in different towns or states. One parent provides the primary residence, and the other parent comes home for short periods of time, such as weekends and holidays. _____________________
VI. Substitute parents and institutional child care workers normally provide a replacement family for children referred by the courts or government agencies. ______________
VII. It is a family where a group of people who live and work together often share the responsibilities of raising the children. _________________________
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