Family Structure and Legacies

FAMILY
STRUCTURE AND
LEGACIES
HOW DOES YOUR
FAMILY AFFECT YOU
AS A DEVELOPING
INDIVIDUAL?
GENOGRAM
A genogram or family tree is a useful
tool to gather information about a
person’s family. This visual
representation of a family can help us
to identify patterns or themes within
families that may be influencing or
driving a person’s current behavior.
Symbols for drawing the genogram or
family tree:
Female symbol – name, age
Male symbol – name, age
Unknown gender
Married – add the years of age

De facto relationship – commencement date
or ages
Separation – date or ages
Divorce – date or ages

List children in birth order and put names and
ages either within symbols or underneath
Death – a small cross in the corner of the symbol

(record date if known)
Dotted circle – this can be used to enclose the
members living together currently, for example,
who the young person is living with.
Conflictual relationship
Very close
Distant relationship
Family
as defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the basic
unit of society. It is composed of individuals living
together in one household either connected by marriage,
blood, or by legal arrangement.
Family came from the Latin word familia which means

group of people living in the household. Family could be
related by blood, or birth or by other relationship.
Different kinds of family structures:
 Nuclear family: a family unit consisting of at most a
father, mother and dependent children. It is considered
the ‘traditional’ family
 Extended family: a family consisting of parents and
children, along with grandparents, aunts or uncles,
cousins etc.
 Stepfamilies: two families brought together due to
divorce, separation, and remarriage.
 Single
parent family: this can be either a father or a
mother who is singly responsible for rising of a child.
 Adoptive family: A family where one or more of the
children has adopted.
 Bi-racialor multi-racial family: a family where the
parents are members of different racial identity groups.
 Trans-racial adoptive family: a family member where
the adopted child is of a different racial identity group
than the parents.
 Blended family: A family that consists of members from
(two or more) previous families.
 Conditionally separated families: A family member is
separated from the rest of the family.
 Foster family: A family where one or more of the children is
legally a temporary member of the household.
 Gayor lesbian family: A family where one or both of the parents
sexual orientation is gay or lesbian.
 Immigrant family: a family where the parents have immigrated
to another country as adults.
 Migrantfamily: a family that moves regularly to places where
they have employment.
FAMILY LEGACIES
Each of us have legacies passed from our
ancestors, from generation to generation such as
culture, traditions, and customs. No matter who
we are, where we live, we have one thing in
common-- heritage.
This heritage is transferred to us by our parents
whether good, bad. This heritage is also called
legacy, and this could be passed to us socially,
 Transferring positive legacy to children is a delicate
and important task of adults in the family. It helps
dictate the future progress and development of a
child.
 It is important to remember that passing on a
spiritual, emotional, and social legacy is a process,
not an event.
 If parents do not intentionally pass a legacy
consistent to their beliefs, culture will pass along its
own, often leading to a negative end. Parents are
responsible on the process; God is responsible for the
product.
FAMILY LEGACIES
1.EMOTIONAL LEGACY
2. SOCIAL LEGACY
3.SPIRITUAL LEGACY
1.EMOTIONAL LEGACY
A strong emotional legacy:
1. provides a safe environment in which deep emotional
roots can grow
2. fosters confidence through stability
3. conveys a tone of trusting support
4. nurtures a strong sense of positive identity
5. creates a “resting place” for the soul
6. demonstrates unconditional love
2. SOCIAL LEGACY
 Key building blocks of children’s social legacy include:
1. respect, beginning with themselves and working out to other people
2. responsibility, fostered by respect for themselves, that is cultivated by
assigning children duties within the family, making them accountable
for their actions, and giving them room to make wrong choices once in a
while
3. unconditional love and acceptance by their parents, combined with
4. conditional acceptance when the parents discipline for bad behavior or
actions
5. the setting of social boundaries concerning how to relate to god,
authority, peers, the environment and siblings
6. rules that are given within a loving relationship
3. SPIRITUAL LEGACY
 Here are five things you do that predict whether your children
will receive the spiritual legacy a Christian parent desires. Do
you:
1. Acknowledge and reinforce spiritual realities? Do your
children know, for example, that Jesus loves everyone?
That God is personal, loving and will forgive us?
2. View God as a personal, caring being who is to be loved and
respected?
3. Make spiritual activities a routine part of life?
4. Clarify timeless truth — what’s right and wrong?
5. ncorporate spiritual principles into everyday living.
ACTIVITY:
ACTIVITY: Poem Writing
Make two five-line poems about your
family. Follow this pattern:
 First line is _______________family
 Second line is two adjectives (joined by and) which describe
the noun
 Third line is a verb and an adverb to describe the noun in
action
 Fourth line begins with like and presents a comparison
 Fifth line starts with if only and expresses a wish
Example:
( __________family) Mine family
( adjective + adjective ) unique and chaotic
 (verb+verb) Changing constantly
 (like) Like flaming hot Thai dishes,
which are quite exotic
 (if only) If only we could relive our
family life, of jolly years gone
 by
Tanging yaman (short clip)
QUIZ
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FAMILY

Male symbol – name, age

Married – add the years of age

Divorce – date or ages

Death – a small cross in the corner of the symbol

Family came from the Latin word familia which means

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