BRAINSTORMING ON FAMILY STRUCTURES

Traditional family:
Large family / extended
family NUCLEAR
=
FAMILY
Grandparents, parents,
children, grandchildren, Parents and
uncles and aunts children
= [Ideally
Adults from different father/mother/ two
generations, relatives children (son and
Patriarch, male daughter)]
breadwinner, housewife today: shifting of
MODEL FAMILY
and mother gender roles
= LEGITIMACY / RECOGNITION
= (mother working,
Conventional household, father staying at
conservative moral FAMILY home bringing up the
values,
Emotional stability STRUCTURES children and in
charge of the house
UNMARRIED BREAKDOWN OF FAMILY
chores)VALUES
BLENDED COUPLES = PROBLEM OF LEGITIMACY/ RECOGNITION
sexual
FAMILY Cohabitation =PROBLEM OF ACCEPTATION AND TOLERANCE
emancipation
Divorce Children out (contraception,
REDEFINITION OF FAMILY VALUES
Remarriage of marriage abortion,
Step family female
Emotional workforce),
SAME-SEX
instability sexualAND
COUPLES
SINGLE-PARENT parity PARENTS
INTERRACIAL FAMILY FAMILY Gay /
Mixed couples Widow / lesbian
Mixed-race children widower = Resorting to a
racism, xenophobia, death of one surrogate
prejudice, racial parent mother /
discrimination, segregation, Divorced / adoption
verbal and physical separated
violence, assault mockery homophobia,

demonstrations,