The girl in the video says that it’s important to realize that family is a matter of choice. Family is usually seen as brothers, sisters, father, mother, uncles, aunts, etc. When she says that family is seen as a choice she’s talking about marriage and considering close friends as family. When you get married, you’re choosing that other person to become your family. Some people consider close friends family more than actual blood family. She says that people consider close friends family because family is usually looked at as people who choose to care for each other, share resources and share parts or all of their lives together. The video then explains that there are many types of families. The common type is the nuclear family which is made up of two parents with biological and or adopted children. The other common type is the single parent family. That’s when a single parent is raising the children. There is also another type called extended family. Extended family includes everyone who isn’t your parents like your uncles, grandparents, great aunts, etc.
This video is a great video to use because it gives us the information we learned in class and in the book. This video even gives us a little more information than what we learned. Our definition almost completely matches the definition given in the video. Just like the video we also brought up extended and nuclear family. We explained that extended family is the kin family. Meaning these are family members of common descent. We had basically the same definition for nuclear family but the video went a little more into depth than we did. We explained that families have their own roles, patterns and behaviors. We gave the functionalists view on family. They view family as “one of the basic institutions that keep society running smoothly by providing functions such as producing and socializing children, economic production, etc.” In conclusion, this video really does tie in with what we learned.
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