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Intentional Family, Family Celebrations, Unity and Values - Coggle Diagram
Intentional Family
Psychological Family
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Assume parents (esp. mother’s) should place family needs over personal needs while children are being raised
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Pluralistic Family
Assumption that people create, or find themselves in a wide variety of family configurations and no family form is better and should be supported by society
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Entropic Family
Just as much love as Intentional Families but their members gradually drift apart because they lack the infusions of bonding, intimacy, and community that only well-maintained family rituals give.
Individual family members may have active lives in the world but the energy of the family itself slowly seeps away
Contemporary society creates by 2 means-Lack of support for couples to make marriages work and for parents to make childrearing work, and by putting up barriers to sustaining family rituals
Tendency to gradually lose a sense of cohesion over years through lack of conscious attention to its inner life and community ties
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Family Rituals
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Rituals must have meaning or significance, be repeated, and must be coordinated go be a ritual
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Family rituals give us 4 important things: 1-Predictability Connection 3-Identity 4-A way to enact values
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Intentional Family
Ritualizing family-creates patterns of connecting through everyday family rituals, seasonal celebrations, special occasions, and community involvement
Discipline to stick with good rituals, and the flexibility to change them when they are not working anymore
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Members create a working plan for maintaining and building family ties and implements plan best they can
Types of Family Rituals
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Thanksgiving and Christmas have evolved into a special category of family ritual involving all three functions of rituals: connection, love, and community
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Institutional Family
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Suited to a world of family farms, small family businesses, and tight communities bound together by common religion
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Time and Technology
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Carve out tie from another activity that occupies more of your attention than needed like technology
Family Celebrations, Unity and Values
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