Home Economics - The Family

1. Nuclear family

2. Extended family

3. One parent family

4. Blended family

1. Increase in one parent families

2. Increase in cohbaiting couples

3. Increase in blended families

4. Incrase in isolation

1. Physical needs eg. food, clothing, shelter

2. Emotional needs eg. love, security, support

3. Social needs eg. guidance on what is right and wrong

1. Love and security

2. Care

3. Education

4. Protection from neglect or abuse

1. To respect household rules

2. To show respect for all family members

3. To help out in the runnning of the home

4. To behave in an acceptable way in society

This is having a fixed and often wrong idea about men's and women's personalities eg. women are emotional and men are not

This is having a fixed and often wrong idea about how men and women should behave in society

For example women should do the childrearing and housework and men should go out to work