Lesson 17 : Types & characteristics of rural families
Types of Families
Simple, compound and composite families
Simple families are with husband, wife and unmarried children Compound families are with husband, wife their unmarried children, husband's parents and unmarried brothers and sisters Composite families are all married brothers living together, which can otherwise may be called as collateral joint family
Families on the basis of authority
Husband dominant, where husband dominate Wife dominate, where wife dominates Equalitarian, where family runs with mutual consultation Autonomy where there is self ruling with much of independence.
Institutional and companionship families
Intuitional families are with control by mores and public opinions Companionship families are with mutual consensus and affection
Conjugal and consanguine families
Conjugal are with marital ties as priority Consanguine are with blood ties as priorities
Trustee, atomistic and domestic families
In trustee families members are to be conformed to family norms without any individual rights In Atomistic families conventional mores has no significance and every member can take their own choice. Domestic families are between trustee and atomistic
Fissioned families
It is a family with structure of nuclear family which is separated from parental family
Participants