GRADE

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San Fabian National High School
San Fabian, Pangasinan

MODULE
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PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
FOR STEM AND HUMSS STUDENTS

Quarter 4 Week4 Module 4

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LOIDA D. JAPSON 09277791465 LOIDA DELA CRUZ JAPSON

BRENDA G. MAHINAY 09209472795 Brenda Mahinay

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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you understand
and identify Family Structures and Legacies. The scope of this module allows you to understand how
your family affects you as a developing individual. The language used recognizes the diverse
vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the
course. But the order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you
are now using.
The module discusses one lesson, namely:
 Lesson 23 – Family Structures
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Identify the different types of family structures;
2. Appraise your family structure and the type of care you give and receive, which may help in
understanding yourself better.
What I Know

TEST I. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of paper.

1. A family where one or more of the children has been adopted

a. Foster family
b. Nuclear family
c. Extended family
d. Adoptive family

2. Two families brought together due to divorce, separation or remarriage

a. Step family
b. Extended family
c. Adoptive family
d. Single parent family

3. A group of people related to one another by blood, marriage or adoption, a. Family

b. Mom and dad
c. Relatives
d. Friends

4. This can be either a father or mother who is singly responsible for raising a child.
a. Step family
b. Extended family
c. Adoptive family
d. Single parent family

5. A couple or single parent decides to raise another person’s child as their own
a. Single parent family
b. Adoptive family
c. Nuclear family
d. Extended family

6. A family where the parents are members of different racial groups

a. Bi racial or multi-racial family
b. Nuclear family
c. Extended family
d. Adoptive family

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 7. Chosen by a family to take responsibility for a child if the parents are no longer able to
provide
a. Grandparents
b. Adoptive parents
c. Siblings
d. Guardian
8. What does good parenting require?
a. Providing a positive role model
b. Encouraging productive behavior
c. Engaging in adequate supervision
d. All of the above

9. A family that cares for children who are not related to other children
a. Adoptive family
b. Guardian family
c. Foster family
d. Stepfamily

10. Which of the following is not a benefit of extended family?

a. Potentially increased emotional support
b. Learning from the combined experiences of more family members
c. Improved intellectual development resulting from exposure to more knowledge
d. More opportunities for travel as a result of having more family to visit

TEST II. Read the following statements below, write the word TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if the statement is incorrect.

1. Adoptive family is also known as “blended” family which is a combination of two families.
2. Immigrant family is a family that transferred together from one place to another because of
the employment status or the job of the head of the family.
3. Foster family is a type of family wherein one member of the family is a temporary member
of a household whether related by blood or not.
4. A family is considered gay or lesbian family if both parents are members of the LGBT
community.
5. A nuclear family consists of mother, father, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and
cousins living together in one household.

LESSON 23: FAMILY STRUCTURES

One Filipino family trait that is known across different races is establishing and having strong
family ties. 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.
One of the family structures and the most common kind of structure dominated the
Philippines is the “extended family” on which, we are fond of being in the same roof together with
our mother, father, aunts, uncles, grandfather, grandmother, and cousins. In a typical Filipino family,
though an adult female member gets married, the groom will bring her to their house to live in.
However, as time goes by, this culture changes and varies, family by family across generations.
In this module, we will study the different family structures, how they differ from one
another, family legacies and how family affects you as a developing individual.
How does your family contribute in your middle and late adolescents?

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What’s In

Activity 1.1 Being a Leader

In the previous module, you’ve learned that your community contributes a lot in the
development of your social relationships. One of the key factors that develops your social skills is
your involvement in the community. Another is how to be a servant leader. What does being a
servant leader mean to you? What do you think are the traits that a servant leader must possess?
(NOTE: One trait was given as a sample to this activity.)
Responsible

Now that you know the traits of a servant leader, let us try looking at a human figure inside
a house. The house symbolizes a place where you live together. At home, who do you think is the
leader? Who leads your household?

WHAT’S NEW
Activity 1.2 Model
In this activity, you will show your creativity by making a model of a house. You can use
materials that can be found in your surroundings. You can use sticks, leaves, candy wrappers etc.

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 After making a house, relate the part of your house to your family members and write down
why that person represents the part of the house you’ve chosen. Paste your house model on a short
bond paper. Below your model, write your explanation.

Activity 1.3 My Family Song

Each of us have different family structure, different family orientation, and culture. As we
grow older, we adapt things and behaviors from our parents. Some of us follow certain family
beliefs. When we are younger, our parents guide and mold us into a better individual by instilling
values on us. These values may be brought by us from time to time on our workplace, school, and
other places, but somehow also change.
There are songs that describe family and the roles of each member of the family. Identify
songs that show such. At the back of the bond paper, make a table as shown below. Write the title of
the song, below it, write your own interpretation of the song based on the lyrics. How does the song
describe family?

Title of the song

Lyrics of the song

Interpretation

All families have sets of beliefs, values, and attitudes that are passed down from generation
to generation. These become part of the growing child’s worldview.
Although most obvious during the holidays, the transmission of family legacies occurs all
year long through the small events and interactions of daily living. Many of these legacies, therefore,
can be passed along without a lot of reflection on the part of the parent.
What is It

Family defined
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.
Family is the basic unit of society. It is the smallest organization in the community. It is said
to be a group of individual living together in one household.
Family comes in different forms. It could vary from one family to another. It is usually
composed of mother, father and children, some other includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins,
and other relatives.

Types of Family Structures

Family structures differ from one family to another, that’s why, we should not compare our
family with that of others. The following table lists the different family structures.

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 Table 1. Family Structures
Family Structure Definition Example

Nuclear Family It is also known as “conjugal” or Mother, father, and

“traditional” family, consisting of children
married couples and their offspring.

Extended Family This type of family includes all relatives A family living together
in proximity, such as grandparents, mother, father, children,
aunts, uncles, and cousins. these grandparents, aunts,
relatives typically live together, and all uncles, and other relatives
share daily household duties. in one roof

Single Parent Father with his children or

Family This family type includes one parent a mother with her
and their children only. A single parent children living in one
family could be the result of a divorce, household.
the death of one parent, or even a
single parent adoption.

Step Family A family where the parents have Mother, children,

divorced and remarried, bringing stepfather. and his kids
children from other unions together to Father, children,
form a new nuclear family. stepmother, and her kids

It is also known as “blended” family,

because two families were combined.

Foster Family A family includes parent who serves as Parents, children, foster
a temporary guardian for one or more child
children to whom they may or may
not be biologically related.

Adopted/Adopt A family wherein parents may adopt Parents (mother and

ive Family a child to whom they share no blood father), adopted child
relationship, or one parent may
adopt the child of the other parent.

Bi-racial or multi- A family wherein parents are from Filipina mother,

racial Family different races American father,
children
Trans-racial A family wherein parents adopted a American parents,
Adoptive child with a different race adopted Filipino children
Family

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 Conditionally A family wherein one of the family Family members are
separated Family members is conditionally separated together except for
from the others. This separation may the father working
be due to their job or employment or abroad. Family are
could be due to hospitalization. living together, except
the eldest child who is
serving on the military

Childless Family Married couple without children Mother and father only

Gay or Lesbian A family wherein one or both parents A lesbian mother and her
Family has a different sexual children with a gay
orientation and is part of the father
LGBT community
Migrant Family It is a family who settles together in a A family who migrated
different place; it could be from one from a place because
place to another due to some the father is a military
circumstances such as the father’s job. officer

Immigrant Family A family wherein one or both parents A family whose mom
are already an immigrant of other is already an immigrant
country. Their children may be or may of Canada. Their mother
not be an immigrant. is already a Canadian
citizen but the rest of
the family members are
not.

Family
The most important people in the lives of young children are their parents. From birth,
children depend on their mothers and fathers. There are also people that act parent roles in caring
and protecting children’s overall well-being. They are known as “guardians”.
While parents are filled with expectation about their children’s personalities, many also lack
knowledge about how best to provide for them. Becoming a parent is usually a welcomed
event, but in some cases, parents are worried with problems regarding their ability to ensure their
child’s physical, emotional, or economic well-being.
Parents utilize resources which they think guarantee positive experiences for their
children.
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, emotionally or spiritually.
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.

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The Emotional Legacy
In order to prosper, children need an enduring sense of security and stability nurtured in an
environment of safety and love.
Unfortunately, many people struggle to overcome a negative emotional legacy that hinder
their ability to cope with the inevitable struggles of life. This is where a family’s important role takes
its place. A family can create an atmosphere that provides a child’s fragile spirit with the
nourishment and support needed for healthy emotional growth. It will require time and consistency
to develop a sense of emotional wholeness, but the rewards are great.
A strong emotional legacy:
• provides a safe environment in which deep emotional roots can grow
• fosters confidence through stability
• conveys a tone of trusting support
• nurtures a strong sense of positive identity
• creates a “resting place” for the soul
• demonstrates unconditional love

Which characteristics or emotional legacy did your parents pass on to you? Which characteristics
would you like to build into the legacy that you may pass to your future children?

The Social Legacy

To really succeed in life, children need to learn more than management strategies,
accounting, reading, writing, and geometry. They need to learn the art of relating to people-- the art
of socialization. If they learn how to relate well to others, they’ll have advantage in living life.
Children need to gain the insights and social skills necessary to cultivate healthy and stable
relationships. As children mature, they must learn to relate to family members, teachers, peers,
friends, and community. Eventually, they must learn to relate to coworkers and many other types of
people in their surroundings.
Nowhere can appropriate social interaction and relationships be demonstrated more
effectively than in the home. At home, children can learn lessons about respect, courtesy, love, and
involvement. Parents play a key role in modelling and passing social legacy.
Key building blocks of children’s social legacy include:
• respect, beginning with themselves and working out to other people
• 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
• unconditional love and acceptance by their parents, combined with conditional acceptance
when the parents discipline for bad behavior or actions
• the setting of social boundaries concerning how to relate to god, authority, peers, the
environment and siblings
• rules that are given within a loving relationship

The Spiritual Legacy

The Spiritual Legacy is the least in priority, but that’s a mistake. As spiritual beings, we adopt
attitudes and beliefs about spiritual matters from one person or another. Parents need to take the
initiative and present faith to their children.
Parents who successfully pass along a spiritual legacy to their children model and reinforce
the unseen realities of the godly life. We must recognize that passing a spiritual legacy means more
than encouraging our children to attend church, as important as that is. The church is there to
support parents in raising their children but it cannot do the raising; only parents can. Parents are
primary in spiritual upbringing. Children, perceive God the way they perceive their parents. If parents

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are loving, affirming, forgiving and yet strong in what they believe, children will think of God that
way.
Here are five things you do that predict whether your children will receive the spiritual legacy
a Christian parent desires. Do you:
• Acknowledge and reinforce spiritual realities? Do your children know, for example, that
Jesus loves everyone? That God is personal, loving and will forgive us?
• View God as a personal, caring being who is to be loved and respected?
• Make spiritual activities a routine part of life?
• Clarify timeless truth — what’s right and wrong?
• Incorporate spiritual principles into everyday living.
(SOURCE: Your Heritage, by J. Otis Ledbetter and Kurt Bruner.)
What’s More

The following are some situations that describe a family. On the blank provided, write what
structure of family is indicated.
George and Mirriam were already married for 17 years. Their eldest is 10 yrs old
named Nathan and their youngest is 7 years old named
Hannah. They are living in Palawan together with their witty dog, Bantay. While
the couple are working, George’s father, Lolo Berting is the one who fetches the two
kids at school, while Lola Pasing does the household chores and the cooking. Since
Nathan was born, both Lolo Berting and Lola Pasing lived together with George’s
family to assist the couple in parenting Hannah and Nathan.

Lita was 12 yrs old when she knew that she was adopted. Mr.

Benjamin and Mrs. Linda had three kids and all of them were boys.
Since the couple wanted to have a baby girl, they decided to adopt, because they
were too old to have another baby. It was Lina’s

birthday when the couple talked to her and told her the truth. Lina wholeheartedly
accepted the truth and embraced Mr. and Mrs. Santos. Lina’s biological parents died
on a car accident, that’s why

the couple adopted Lina.

Major Mark Delos Reyes of the Philippines Army was assigned in the province of Tuguegarao. In
the call of duty and service, Maj. Delos Reyes and his wife decided that the whole family will
transfer to Tuguegarao where Maj. Delos Reyes was assigned. The next day, they packed all
their things and left their home.

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 Joyce is fifth among the 13 children of Mr. and Mrs. Aquino. She was 16 yrs. old
and will be a grade 11 student next year. Because of poverty, her parents
cannot support her studies anymore. Her father is a farmer and he is the only
one who provides for their living. Her aunt was living in Manila and offered her
father to support Joyce’s study until she finishes her college. A condition was
given to them, though. Joyce will have to stay in Manila and will live with her
aunt Tessie and her family.
What I Have Learned
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct answers.

1. is the basic unit of the society

2. Family came from the “familia”.
3. There are different family structures, and one of them is Nuclear family which
is also known as family.
4. family consists of father, mother, children, grandparents, aunts, uncle, and
other family relatives living together in one household.
5. Step families are also known as family, because two families are brought
together.
6. Single parent family is a family wherein a single parent is responsible of taking
care of members of the family, this could either be because of divorced, or
.
7. Foster family parent who serves as a guardian for one or more
children to whom they may or may not be biologically related with.
8. Bi-racial or multi-racial family is a family wherein parents are from different
.
9. Adoptive family is a family wherein parents may a child to whom they
share no blood relationship, or one parent may adopt the child of the other
parent.
10. Conditionally separated family is a family where one of the family members is
conditionally separated from the others. This separation may be due to their
or could be due to hospitalization.
11. A family wherein one or both parents has a different sexual
orientation.
12. A family consists of only married couple.
13. A transracial family is a family where parents adopt a child from a different
.
14. It is migrant family which together on different place, it could be from one
place to another due to some circumstances.
15. A/an family is a family where one or both parents are already an immigrant
of other country.

What I Can Do

Activity: Understanding My Own Family Structure

In this activity, you will need a family picture. Paste it on your notebook. If you do not have a
recent family picture, you can cut out pictures from the magazines and just put name of your family
member on each picture. You may also draw your family picture.
Identify what family structure you have at home. Write the names of each member of your
family below the picture. In a short paragraph, describe your family. Explain your family’s social,
emotional and spiritual legacies.

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 My Family

Assessment

TEST I. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Which of the following best describes a foster family?

a. Two families brought together due to divorce, separation, or
remarriage
b. A family wherein father or mother who is singly responsible for
raising a child
c. A family where the parents are members of different racial groups
d. A type of family wherein one member of the family is a temporary member of a
household either that member is related by blood or not.

2. An extended family consists of

a. father, mother, children
b. father, mother, children, grandparents, cousins, and other relatives
c. gay father, mother, niece
d. mother and father
3. Which of the following is not included in a nuclear family?
a. Mother
b. Father
c. Grandparents
d. Children (son/daughter)

4. Which of the following best describes single parent family?

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 a. Two families brought together due to divorce, separation, or
remarriage
b. A family wherein father or mother who is singly responsible for
raising a child
c. A family where the parents are members of different racial groups
d. A type of family wherein one member of the family is a temporary member of a
household either that member is related by blood or not.
5. Family is defined as
a. A group of people with common likes and dislikes
b. A group of people related to one another by blood, marriage or
adoption
c. Two people loving one another
d. People living together in one community
6. A family wherein one or both parents are member of the LGBT community.
a. Single parent family
b. Immigrant family
c. Gay or lesbian family
d. Foster family
7. Adoptive family is
a. A parent who left his/her family due to employment
b. A divorce husband/wife who chooses to raise his/her children alone
c. A couple or single parent decides to raise another person’s child as their own
d. None of the above
8. A guardian is a
a. Person who is the parent of the child
b. A mother or a father
c. A sister or a brother
d. A person who has the responsibility to take cake of a child with a consent from the
government
9. As a good parenting which of the following is a legacy that you can pass on to your
children?
a. Social legacy
b. Emotional legacy
c. Spiritual legacy
d. All of the above
10. Which of the following is a benefit of extended family?
a. Potentially increased emotional support
b. Comparing yourself from your siblings and cousins
c. Increased fighting among relatives
d. All of the above

TEST II. Read the following statements below, write the word TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if the statement is incorrect.

1. Single parent family is a couple living together without having a child.

2. Nuclear family is also called as “traditional” family.
3. A childless couple is not considered as family.
4. Bi racial or multi-racial family is a family were parents are from different races.
5. A Filipino who married a Chinese woman and have 2 kids is considered as stepfamily.

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 Additional Activities

Family contributes to the development of an individual. Most of the youth nowadays are
very considerate about their future. At this time, most of you are imagining your ideal partner, and
what your future life will be.
Looking forward to your future, seven to ten years from now, many of you might be married
or are getting married. After our discussion with regard family, write down what family structure do
you like to have. Describe what your future family would be. You can adopt rules from your parents
on how you want to train your future child. You can do this activity either through a poem, a short
story, or through illustration.

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