04:189:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Stepfamily, The Whole Family

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:101
• Professor: Marie Haverfield

Document Summary

Structural definition: family form-the members of the family and how they are connected. Structural definitions of family involve definitions by form and clearly defined in- group and out-group rules; they know who"s in and out of the group. Task-oriented definition: family functions-how the members function, the tasks they perform, including financial and emotional support. Really focused on relative dependent; anyone who is helping the task of nurturing a child, they become family uncle steve (not really an uncle) can be family. Transactional dfeinition: family interactions-how the members communicate with each other and the feelings that are generated by interaction. Whatever you want to consider family, hard when you have to do legal stuff. Family of origin-refers to the family into which one is born or adopted into. Two heterosexual parents and one or more children (less than 25% of all u. s. Binuclear family: a family that has been split into two families by divorce. (children have two homes)