Types Of Family Structures

Family structure has changed dramatically over the last 50 years. The "Leave it to Beaver" family is no longer the standard, and several variations on family have been created. There are six specific types of family structures identified by society today.

[taohuang]

I personally feel that extended families offer the best solution. They offer the most security, the most flexibility and expose children to the widest possible social education — which is why they were the norm for the bulk of human existence (and still are the norm for all non-human primate species). While largely intact in my grandparents’ and even to some extent, in my parent’s time, beginning in my own generation and accelerating rapidly thereafter, we have witnessed the fragmentation and annihilation of the family structure, beginning with its reduction to the nuclear family and subsequently its dwindling down to single parent households. Simultaneously, we have witnessed skyrocketing populations of homeless people (who are someone’s unwanted relative), and the explosive construction of daycare and hospice facilities to care for our (unwanted) children and (unwanted) dysfunctional and dying parents. As if this were not bad enough, we now have same sex parents, which presume (incorrectly) that a woman can substitute for a father and a man for a mother in the upbringing of a heterosexual child — despite abundant evidence to the contrary indicating that the means by which males and females relate to and instruct their children differs substantially between the two sexes. It is little wonder therefore that our children are struggling academically and socially and experience an ever widening range of cognitive and developmental maladies. The policies that are in place that encourage this fragmentation must be stopped and reversed immediately if we are to have any hope of raising our children to become the intelligent, psychologically stable and socially astute adults that will be required to lead our nation forward into the future.

[phertility]

Thank you for being so inclusive. I am new to this channel and am checking out your content. I came to this video expecting something quite different. Again, thank you for including my families.

[MR.Gelo_]

Extended family is more enjoyable than other family, If you have a common goal

[kdonly]

"Extended families are becoming increasingly common all over the world." Who wrote this statement obviously never read a history book about family units. In many cultures for hundred of years the extended family is a core one. This video isn't an accurate source of information

[yuleimysdegracia]

Yo pensando que tenía subtítulos :v