Personal Development

Quarter 2: Module 4
Family Structures and Legacies

Writer: ROMEL J. ROMANO

Cover Illustrator: Clarissa A. Familara

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 What I Need to Know
In this module, you will gain understanding on your family values, traditions,
beliefs, and attitudes that are handed down from generation to generation by
appraising them.
Subsequently, being aware of your roots can help you decide which traits and
attitudes you cherish and which you want to make a conscious effort to change.
Moreover, at the end of the lesson you are expected to:
1. appraise one’s family structure and the type of care he/she gives and receives,
which may help in understanding himself/herself better;
2. make a genogram and trace certain physical, personality, or behavioral attributes
through generation; and
3. prepare a plan on how to make the family members firmer and gentler with each
other.

What I Know

Read each item and answer the questions that follow.

1. The Bureau of Census defines it as “two or more persons who are related
by birth, marriage or adoption and who live together as one household.”
A. Best Friend C. Friends
B. Family D. Partnership
2. It is a family consisting of parents and children, along with grandparents,
grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, and others.
A. Nuclear Family C. Single Parent Family
B. Extended Family D. Step Family
3. Which of the following refers to two families who are brought together due to
divorce, separation, and remarriage?
A. Extended Family C. Single Parent Family
B. Nuclear Family D. Step Family

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 4. This can be either a father or a mother who is responsible for the raising of a child.
A. Extended Family C. Single Parent Family
B. Nuclear Family D. Step Family
5. What is the other term for GENOGRAM?
A. Apple Tree C. Drawing
B. Chart D. Family Tree
For us Filipinos, family is the most important unit in the society. We depend so much on our
parents for protection, and for providing our needs during the first moments of our lives. As we grow,
we are bonded together with values and traits that are first taught at home and applied in our day to
day lives. In a family, through good and bad times, we always find time to smile and look at things in
a bright side. Whatever situation we are into, we are always reminded that our family is there to
discipline, support, and love us.

What’s In

Personal and social relationships are seen as a strong social context in

Philippine society. We basically try to make our friendship and community into family-
like relationships that are shared and supported.

As Filipinos, we prefer to have smooth interpersonal relationships with

one another and go out of our way to create an environment in which
everyone around us feels comfortable and accepted.

What’s New
Activity 1. Family is Love Below is an empty collage sheet. Fill in the given parts by supplying
photos of family members. In five (5) sentences, describe your family. Focus on their best traits and
values.

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 What Is It
Activity 2. All about my Family
Directions: Below is a table, fill-in the table and answer the questions that follows.

Family Members How I care for them How they care for me
Parents
Siblings
Grand Parents
Aunts and Uncles

1. How do you find the activity?

2. What is the best trait/values you learned from your family?
3. What is your ideal family size? Why?
4. How do your parents and other members of the family impose authority and freedom
over you?
5. What role does your family play in your education and holistic development?

Family Structure
The traditional family structure is considered a family support system which involves two
married individuals providing care and stability for their biological offspring. However, this two –
parent, nuclear family has become less prevalent, and alternative family forms have become more
common. The family is created a birth and established ties across generations, the extended family
of aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins can all hold significant emotional and economic roles
for the nuclear family.
Different kinds of family structures:
1. Nuclear or traditional family – a family consisting of a father, mother and
children/s.
2. Extended family – a family that consists of two or more nuclear families (father,
mother, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins) that are living under one roof.
3. Single parents – It is either a father or a mother who is taking care of or raising the
children.
4. Blended Family – a family with a combination of another family.
5. Step Family – two families brought together due to divorce, separation, and
remarriage.
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6. Single Parent Family- This can be either a father or a mother who is singly
responsible for the raising of the child.
7. Adoptive family- a family that adopts one or more children that the
parent/s considered as their offspring.
8. Bi-racial or multi-racial family – this refers to a family where every family
member belongs to a different cultural or ethnic group.
9. Trans-racial adoptive family – refers to a family where the parents adopted
a child that has a different racial group with them.
10. Conditionally separated families – is a family where a family member is
living away from the rest of the family due to employment, hospitalization,
military service but remains a significant member of the family.
11.Foster Family – A family where one or more of the children is temporarily
living in the same household for a short period.
12.Gay or Lesbian Family – refers to one or both of the parent’s sexual
orientation is gay or lesbian. This family could be a two-parent family, an
adoptive family, a single-parent family, or an extended family.
13.Immigrant Family – This refers to a family where parents migrated to
another country but not necessarily that the children are migrants.
14.Migrant Family – This refers to a family that regularly moves to different
places for employment purposes.

Activity 3. Where Do I belong?

You just discovered the different types of family. Using your journal notebook,
answer the following questions.
1. What kind of family do you belong?
2. How do you describe your family?
3. How does your family differ from others?
4. What makes your family unique?

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 What’s More

Give time to our family

After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a
movie. She said, “I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some
time with you.”
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who has been a widow
for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three children had made it possible to visit her
only occasionally. That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie. “What’s wrong,
are you well?” she asked.
My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a late night call or a surprise invitation is
a sign of bad news. “I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you,” I responded.
“Just the two of us.” She thought about it for a moment, and then said, “I would like that very much.”
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at
her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date. She waited in the door
with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate
her last wedding anniversary. She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel’s. “I told my
friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were impressed, “she said, as she got into
the car. “They can’t wait to hear about our meeting.”
We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and cozy. My mother took
my arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could
only read large print. Half way through the entries, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring
at me. A nostalgic smile was on her lips. “It was I who used to have to read the menu when you
were small,” she said. “Then it’s time that you relax and let me return the favor,” I responded. During
the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation – nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent
events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the movie. As we arrived at her
house later, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you.” I agreed.
“How was your dinner date?” asked my wife when I got home. “Very nice. Much more so than I
could have imagined,” I answered.

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 A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I
didn’t have a chance to do anything for her. Sometime later, I received an envelope with a copy of a
restaurant receipt from the same place mother and I had dined. An attached note said: “I paid this
bill in advance. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two plates – one for
you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me. I love you, son.”

At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: “I LOVE YOU” and to give
our loved ones the time that they deserve. Nothing in life is more important than your family. Give
them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be put off till “some other time.”
Source: adapted from Personal Development Reader from Department of Education

Processing Questions:
1. In the story “Give time to our family”’ who was the other woman that the wife
wanted her husband to go out with for a dinner and a movie?
2. Why is it important to have time for the family?
3. What does the story depict?
What is a Genogram?
A genogram is a picture of a person’s family relationships and history. It goes beyond a
traditional family tree allowing the creators to visualize patterns and psychological factors that affect
relationships.

Activity 4. The Roots of My Existence

Most families hold reunion where they meet their relatives. Do you know all your relatives?
Let us try to discover the root of your genes by doing what is being asked below. You can add more
if there is a need for you to do it. Make a genogram (family tree). Through generations of your clan,
trace certain physical, personality or behavioral attributes.

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 What I Have Learned

Source: Genogram Diagram adapted from Personal Development Reader by Department of Education
Activity 5:
1. Make your own genogram using the sample given.
2. Identify the character, and physical traits you inherit from your grandparents, parents and other
relatives.

What I Can Do

Activity 6: Family is Forever

On the next page, you will see the table plan entitled “ My Gentler and Firmer Family Plan” .
In your journal notebook, create your own plan using the table. Add more activities that you think will
make your family gentler and firmer with one another.

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 My Gentler and Firmer Family Plan

Members of Traits or values

Activity Timeline my family Impact Created Developed
Involved
Ex. Eat together Breakfast/Lu Whole Family • Develop • Agree on 1 meal
nch / Dinner agreement time a day to gather all
Time /consensus family members and eat
among family together.
members
• Any member
• Open
of the family
communication
can open
conversation
• Close family ties.
• Closeness
within the
Family
1.
2.
3.

Assessment
I. Read each item and answer the following questions. Write the letter of your choice in your journal
notebook.
1. Which of the following phrases is the best description of the parents’ roles in the family?
A. teach, discipline, and provide for their children
B. ask, control, and reserve for their children
C. take charge on the lives of the children especially on the decision making
D. cooperate with the children at all times
2. With which of the statement is associated to the role of the children in the family?
A. Provide resources
B. Heads the decision making
C. Helps on the chores or any duties capable of doing and loving
D. Looks at the welfare of the whole family
For numbers 3 and 4 refer to this situation:
Lina is a graduating senior high school student. She wanted to take Engineering in college
but her father wanted her to take nursing.

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3. As Lina, how would you tell father that you wanted to take Engineering?
A. Enroll Engineering immediately without telling father.
B. Approach father when he is not busy and tell him how you feel and
think about the two courses.
C. Ask your mother to tell your father that you wanted Engineering and
not Nursing.
D. Delay your enrolment in college because it’s confusing.

4. If you are the father of Lina, how would you react to the situation that she wanted
Engineering and not Nursing.
A. Discuss her viewpoints, dreams, and thoughts openly.
B. Ask her to stop schooling,
C. Limit her allowance
D. Impose your opinion on the two courses to her.
5. Which of the following best describe a healthy family?
A. Nurturing and supporting other family members.
B. Leaving the decision making to only one family member
C. Imposing strict discipline to every family member
D. Providing the head of the family a lot of responsibilities.

II: Using the table below, list down activities you and your family enjoy doing together
for the following pastime. Write your answer in your journal notebook.

Activities Impact Created Values/ Traits Developed

Outing
Family game
Roundtable discussions
Recreational activities

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Personal Development Reader First Edition 2016 ,Department of Education, Republic of the
Philippines
Grade 11 Personal development Scolaire Publishing 2016,Department of Education, Republic of the
Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1st edition. Different types of Family. Julie Olsen
Edwards. Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House Inc., 2016.
Edwards, Julie Olsen. “The Many Kinds of Family Structures in Our Communities”. Accessed
January 16, 2020. https://www.scoe.org/files/ccpc-family-structures.pdf
https://academictips.org/blogs/give-time-to-our-family/
https://swhelper.org/2016/09/14/genogram-need-learn-create-one/

D 5. 5. A
C 4. 4. A
D 3. 3. B
B 2. 2. C
B 1. Answers may Vary 1. A
PART II. PART I
What I Know: ASSESSMENT

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 Development Team of the Module

Writer: ROMEL J. ROMANO

Internal Reviewers: Dr. Nida P. Andrada, Anna Japone, Emily G. Santos
External Reviewer: NOEMI B. ZULIETA, PhD – PNU
Illustrator: Clarissa A. Famillara
Management Team:
Sheryll T. Gayola
Assistant Schools Division Superintendent
OIC, Office of the Schools Division Superintendent

Elisa O. Cerveza
Chief, CID
OIC, Office of the Assistant Schools Division Superintendent

Jovita Consortia Mani

EPS-MAPEH

Ivy Coney A. Gamatero

EPS – LRMS

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