CHAPTER 3 (The Childbearing and ChildrearingFamily in the Community)

Family-centered nursing

It has a strong focus on modern nursing practice

Community

Can be defined in many ways, but it is generally understood to be a group of individual interacting within a limited geographic area

Ecomap

This helps identify what community resources are being used by a family or the family’s ‘fit’ into the community

Family

Continues to be defined by the US census bureau of 2015 as “ Householder and one or more other people living in the same household, who are related by birth marriage or ad adoption”.

Rector and Stanley (2021)

They refer family as two or more people who live in the same household, usually share a common emotional band and perform certain in related social tasks

Family of orientation

Is the family one is born into; One self, Parents and siblings if any

Family of procreation

Is the family one establishes; One , spouse or significant other and children

1. Family of orientation

2. Family of procreation

Two basic family types can be described:

The child free or childless family

Is composed of two people living together without children

This category reference to a growing trend of voluntary choice to not have children and be child free

The cohabitation family

Are composed of couples perhaps with children who live together, but remain unmarried

The nuclear family

Is the traditional were in it composed of two parents and a child or children

The extended family

Also known as multigenerational family, which includes not only a nuclear family, but also other family members such as Grandparents, cousins, etc.

The single-parent family

They play a large role in child rearing

The Blended family

A marriage or reconstituted family. A divorced or widowed person with children married someone who has children

The LGBTQ+ Family

LGBTQ+ people live together as partners for companionship, financial security, and sexual fulfillment, and they may formed the same structure as a nuclear family

The foster family

Children parents can no longer care for them maybe placed in a foster or substitute home by a child protection agency through the age of 17

The Adoptive family

They adopt children. Most common today.

1. Nurturer

2. Provider

3. Decision Maker

4. Financial Manager

5. Problem Solver

6. Health manager

7. Culture bearer

8. Environmentalist

9. Gatekeeper

Nine Family Roles:

Genogram

Is a diagram that details, families structure, and provides information about the families, health history and the rules of various family members across several generation.

1. Physical maintenance

2. Socialization of family member

3. Allocation of resources

4. Maintenance of order

5. Division of labor

6. Reproduction recruitment and release of family members

7. Placement of members into the largest society

8. Maintenance of motivation and morale

Eight Family Tasks:

Stage 1: Marriage

Stage 2:The early childbearing family

Stage 3:The family with a preschool child

Stage 4:The family with a school-aged child

Stage 5:The family with an adolescent(All this child is between 13 and 20 years years of age)

Stage 6:The launching stage family: The family within a late adolescent

Stage 7:The family of middle-aged parents

Stage 8:The family in retirement or older age

Give the seven developmental stages and goals for families: