What is a family?Social Institute of the four major.It allows you to constantly replenish the population.It is in the first place.At the same time, the family as a small group - it is the most stable and strong unit of society.Throughout his life a person can simultaneously visit many groups, some leave, other leave, then come back.And only the family is the one he does not throw ever.The generally accepted following its definition.The family as a small group, or based on marriage or kinship by blood.Its members are linked with one double life, bilateral assistance, the responsibility in the field of morality and right in front of each other.
In addition, the family as a small group has such an important feature as the ability to recover in the new generation.Since the legalization of marriage, she conceived, and ends its existence after the official registration of divorce.This indicates that the family as a small social group consists of several life cycles.This chain of consecutive relevant events, starting with the registration of the marriage until its termination.An example to highlight the steps that make up the life cycle, the scientists were the families in which the wife never divorced.If this fact took place, the scheme to build heavier.
Registration of marriage - this is the initial stage of the family, the so-called stage of growth.It continues until until the last baby born.
In the second stage the family as a small group going through the birth of the last child.She concludes relocating their first child, decided to create their own family.
Disconnecting grown up children continued in the third stage.Its duration depends on the age difference between the children.Father and mother are at this time of grandparents raising grandchildren often involved.The duration of the third stage also depends on the country in which the family lives.It ends with the departure of the grandchildren of grandparents house.
fourth stage lasts until the death of one spouse (or both).During this time the husband and wife were alone again, as in the time of the marriage.
also on the basis of certain criteria distinguish the different types of families.First and foremost, they are classical (traditional), consisting of several generations, and the modern nuclear, consisting of two generations.
of the number of births they are large families, childless and one-child.
more distinguished family of origin (parents'), and procreation, which is created already adult children.
If it prevails husband - a patriarchal family, if the wife - the matriarchal.
Leading men in the family makes it paternalnoy women - maternalnoy.If both spouses are considered to be the head of an equal, she ekvalitarnaya.
At this stage of development of society is the family of his cell, consisting usually of a parent and child.It is called the nuclear, as parents and their children - is the core, is responsible for the emergence of a new generation.It is the center of the family.All the rest - aunts, uncles, grandparents - is its peripherals.The family in which several generations live together (three or four), called extended.And branches uncle-aunt, step-brothers and sisters do not belong here.
related groups created by two generations.When the children get older, they are separated form their families.Then their children grow up and also being resettled, and so it goes on all the time.If the young are to live with their parents, the extended family is obtained.In both cases the release of two types of families:
1) primary (parent);
2) Secondary (newly formed).
nuclear family is present only in a society where the grown-up children have the opportunity to live separately.
