Different Types of Families

Running Head: DIFFERENT TYPES OF FAMILIES
Different Types of Families
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF FAMILY1
The family is a prime institution in a society. The family is a private group consisting of
individual who have a relationship with one other which is either by blood, legal ties or sexual
relationship. The structure of the family has undergone a considerable amount of change over the
period of time. Based on the structure and the number of members, there are different types of
family.
Gillian Hampden-Thompson in the article ‘Family Policy, Family Structure, and Children’s
Educational Achievement’ (2013) talks about the relationship between policies, the structure of
families and the education that is imparted through the family. In this article it states that
financial background of a family, the composition of a family as an effect on the educational
outcome of the children. The research highlights that the effect a two-parent family has on the
children differs from the effect a single –parent household has on the children. It is shown that
single-parent families often have an adverse effect on the mental well-being of the children. If
the parents are divorced, which in another types of family, the child goes through some mental
health problems like depression and anxiety (Hampden-Thompson, 2013). This can also get
aggravated if the child has to take on some additional responsibility which normally would be
taken on by an adult member of the family. In these cases, the children show some behavioral
changes which mostly affect their activities at school. This report also stresses the importance of
a two parent family as reports have shown that in a divorced family there are more chances that
the child would resort to alcohol and drug abuse as they go through a lot of stress at an early
stage in their life (Hampden-Thompson, 2013). The sample data for this research has been
conducted in many countries including the United Stars and Switzerland (Hampden-Thompson,
2013).