9._MY_FAMILY_AND_ME

FAMILY

* IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY, A PERSON YOU ADMIRE IN THE FAMILY

importance of the family

- My family is very important to me because they love and care for me no matter what my decisions are in life.

I don’t know what I would do without my family. Family provides for emotional and psychological security.

The family also provides a valuable social and political function.

a person you admire in the family

- Expect My parents it is my grandma. She has brought me and my brother up because my parents were working all the time. She is very hard-working, challenging and she gives me everything, especially time and love. She is very kind and sweetheart but also stubborn.

* TRENDS AND CHANGES IN FAMILY LIFE / DIFFERENT TYPES OF FAM. / PROBLEMS, REASONS FOR GETTING DIVORCED

trends and changes in family life

- modern families live rather differently, and because of this some people think that the family unit is dying and

society is being weakened

- many couples still get married, but others live together without getting married

- living together without wedding, long distance relationships

different types of family

Nuclear family – a family consisting of two parents and their children, but not including cousins, grandparents,...

Extended family – a family unit that includes grandmothers, aunts,... in addition to parents and children

one parent family – a family that includes either a mother or a father but not both

single parent family - someone who has a child or children but no husband, wife, or partner who lives with them

Stepfamily – a family in which the parents have been married before and have children from their previous marriages

Childless family – a family which has not any children

Unmarried couples – couples who is not married

Homosexual couples – families which brink up one or more children as parents or foster parents

Communal family – families which live together, share properties and often follow a set of rules for living daily life (they are not relatives)

Adopted family – legally and permanently made part of another family

Fostered family – look after by another family for a period of time

problems, reasons for getting divorced

- getting in for the wrong reasons, lack of individual identity, not having a shared vision of success

- becoming lost in the roles - many couples “forget” their single friends. Adult children need less attention.

- the intimacy disappears, finances, different priorities and interests, inability to resolve conflicts, domestic violence

- family troubles: living with parents, misunderstanding between husband and wife, lack of trust, love affairs,

infidelity, divorce, domestic violence,...

* STAGES IN HUMAN LIFE – GENERALLY / YOUR OWN LIFE (DESCRIBE YOUR CHILDHOOD…)

babies – they are defenceless, most of their time they lie in their cot or pram. First, they are breastfed, later they eat vegetable soup or fruit juices. They need their mother’s care all day and night.

toddlers – babies in arm move slowly around the flat pulling everything down on the floor, they crawl after their mothers, they are teething