Family structure and its function

According to the family size, the family structure includes: nuclear family: extended family composed of a pair of parents and minor children: divided into main family and extended family/joint family/happy family, main family: extended family composed of a pair of parents and a pair of married children (or other relatives)/joint family: extended family composed of a pair of parents and a plurality of married children (or other relatives) was once the dream of China people, and people often used to say, "Some people pointed out that they think that the tradition of China. It is true that people take the big family as their ideal, but there is no such thing as a big family. In fact, the so-called big family mainly exists in the aristocratic door, and such people are a minority after all; The vast majority of ordinary people are small families, nuclear families or main families, and large families do not exist. This is an understanding of the traditional family. The modern family model has gone far beyond the simple dichotomy and is developing in a more diversified direction. Non-traditional family structure: 1. Single-parent family: a family where a single father or mother raises minor children; 2. Single family: a family where people live alone without getting married or remarried after divorce; 3. Reorganized family: a family composed of one spouse remarried or both spouses remarried; 4. Dink family: a family with double income, fertility but no children, romance and freedom, and enjoying life; 5. Empty nest family: a family where only the old couple live. Other family structures: intergenerational/intergenerational families, unmarried children living together without parents, and other multi-person * * * combination forms arising from entity marriage. 1. main function w socialization function (that is, educating and raising children to adapt them to society) In many ways, families are very suitable for undertaking socialization tasks. It is a close small group, and parents are usually very active, affectionate and motivated towards their children. Children often rely on their parents for authority. However, parents rarely receive explicit training to socialize their children, and families are not always able to accomplish this function effectively and efficiently. More and more schools and professional institutions take on this responsibility. In some countries, people have tried various methods to socialize children instead of families. For example, the former Soviet Union introduced a new mode of collective parenting in the early years, and Israel explored the experiment of replacing families with collective farms, but these attempts ended in failure. W The core role of emotion and companionship is in modern society. For adults and children, family is the main source of emotional companionship. For children, the lack of parental care will lead to the growth of intelligence, emotion and behavior. For adults, although they will not die because of lack of love, they also need emotional care. Judging from the present situation, the family size is getting smaller and smaller, the newlyweds live alone, and people rarely get friendship and support from outside the family, forcing family members to rely on each other deeply in emotion and companionship. Providing emotion and companionship has become the core function of modern families.