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- Concept of family
- Rights and responsibilities of family members
A family is a group of people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption. A family is started when a man and a woman are united by marriage. Some of the reasons for getting married are companionship and to have children. Children are an important component of the family.
There are three common types of families. These are:
- Nuclear family: This is a family which consists of father, mother and children.
- Extended family: This is a family which consists of father, mother, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, and other relatives.
- Single-parent family: This is a one-parent family. It consists of one parent and his or her children. Single-parent families may result from the death of one partner, divorce, or having children when not married.
A family plays an important role in the community. Some of the reasons why the family is important include:
- To foster cooperation in the society. Stable families are able to work together for national development.
- To bring up children who will be honest, trustworthy and responsible people in the society.
- By working together, families promote the development of the individual member.
- Good families act as role models in the society. Children and the youth therefore have role models they can copy.
- Families provide the children with the opportunity to be hard workers so that in the future they can be productive citizens.
- The family is the unit through which children are taught the customs of their society.
A stable family is one in which peace, respect, love and good behavior are maintained. The essential needs of the family members are taken care of.
The following factors contribute to family stability:
- Respect: This is the situation in which members of a family value each other. The children respect their parents and other members of the family, e.g. elders, school workers and neighbors. When family members respect each other and other people, they enjoy harmony in the family. This creates stability in the family.
- Love: This enables family members to help each other and cooperate in all aspects of family matters. When there is love within the family, the stability of the family is enhanced.
- Good behavior: A family is the basis for good behavior in the society. The family becomes stable if its members have good behavior.
- Peace: A family should live in peace and avoid conflicts. Parents and children will be comfortable and will enjoy life when they are all on good terms.
Family stability is important not only to the family members, but also to the community as well as the nation. The following are some of the ways in which family stability is important:
- Family members are able to fully participate in other social and economic activities. Children are able to concentrate in school and parents are able to concentrate at work.
- Family members are able to participate in communal activities such as cleaning up markets and planting trees.
- Peace in the country begins at the lowest level. Therefore, stability is a good basis for peace and stability within the country.
- Family stability ensures that members are engaged in positive habits and activities. This therefore reduces incidences of drug abuse or crime.
- Children from stable families are likely to want to start their own families in future, thereby ensuring the continuity of family as a unit.
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