Crim 5 - Module 2.1

COURSE TITLE: CRIM 5 – JUVENILE DELINQUENCY & JUVENILE JUSTICE
SYSTEM
MODULE 2
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY & JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

THE FAMILY
TOPIC OUTLINE:
 The Family as an Institution

 Rights and Duties of Parents
 Parental Authority
 Kinds of Children under the Family Code
 Emancipation and Age of Majority
 Regulation of Child and Youth Welfare Services
 Special Categories of Children
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the term, the students of should be able to:
a. Define what is family
b. Identify the concepts about family, rights of parents and their authority and rights
of children.
c. Be acquainted of the kinds of family under the family code.
d. Determine what the regulations of Child and Youth Welfare Services are.
OVERVIEW:
This course deals with the etiology of delinquency, deviant behaviours and factors that
cause it and the measures for deterrence and control of teenage crime. Moreover, the
course recognizes the various laws and provisions that protect the rights and welfare of
children including the role of different agencies in handling child in conflict with the law
and its relationship to the Philippine Juvenile Justice System and diversion programs.
Read and re-read the following topic notes and answer the activities provided in this
module.
CHAPTER 6
TOPIC: The Family as an Institution
FAMILY
It is the basic unit of society, whose main responsibility is to provide the basic
necessities of the child as well as to give emotional, spiritual, moral, intellectual and
social basic to its members particularly the children and the primary social agency
tasked with a significant task of rearing the youth.
It is the basic social group that is united by blood and marriage; one that lives
together and participates in economic cooperation, provides security, socialization and
companionship; and aids in the reproduction and preservation of the human race. It is
the most universal social institution.
Functions of Family
1. Reproduction – the family is the pre-requisite for the survival of a society to

replace one generation to the next.
2. Security – the family serves as the protector for all its members specially those
young and helpless against all kinds of danger.
3. Socialization – it is primarily the social institution that is responsible for the early
development of an individual’s personality.
4. Assignment of Status – it is in the family that the initial ascribed status is fixed
which includes their ethnic and racial status, religious status and also their class
status.
5. Emotional Support – “Home sweet home, for there the heart can rest”, perhaps
this is the best way to describe the kind of emotional support a family can give.
6. Other functions of the family are that it provides the mechanism in terms of
transmittal of inheritance of private property and serves as the economic base
for producing goods and services
Family Structures
1. Nuclear Family - refers to a family consisting of a husband and wife plus their
children
2. Extended Family – refers to a family consisting of several generations of blood

relatives. This consists of two nuclear families; the family of orientation and the
family of procreation.
3. Joint family – refers to the married children with their spouses and children living
in one residence. The joint family is horizontal in relationship unlike the extended
family which is vertical.
4. Household – the household may consist of one individual or a hundred
individuals. The individuals may or may not be related to one another, all of them
are considered members of the household having the same residence and share
in the domestic functions.
5. Truncated Family – this is not a common form of family. It refers to the

grandparent-grandchildren relationship. This form of family happens when
grandparents assume the parental responsibility when the parents die and they
act as a surrogate parents.
6. Stem Family – refers to the family by two families – the family of orientation and
the family of procreation. It is similar to the extended family.
Models of Family
1. The Corporate Model
 The father is the chief executive officer.

 The mother, the operating officer, and implements the father’s policy and
managing the staff (children) that in turn have privileges and responsibilities
based on their seniority.
 The father makes the most; he is the final, word in the corporate family,
intimacy runs to the profit motive.
2. The Team Model
 The father is the head;

 The mother is the chief of the training table and cheerleader.
 The children, suffering frequent performance anxiety, play the rules and stay
in shape with conformity calisthenics.
 In the team family, competition is in the name of the game, winning is
everything.
3. The Military Model
 The father is the general.

 The mother is the guard duty with a special assignment to the nurse corps
when needed. The kinds are the grunts.
 Unruly children are sent to stockade, insubordinate wives risk discharge.
 Punishment is swift and sadism is called character building.
4. The Boarding School Model
 The father is the rector or head master, is in charge of training school minds
and bodies, the mother is the dorm counselor who oversees the realm
emotion, illness, good works and bedwetting.
 The children are dutiful students.
 The parents have nothing left to learn, there’s but taught and test.
5. The Theatrical Model
 The father is the producer, plays the role of the father.

 The mother, the stage manager, doubles in the part of mother and children,
the stagehands, also acts the roles of girls and boys.
 No writer is necessary because the line are scripted, the role are sex
stereotypes, the plot predictable.
Contemporary Father
1. The Unnecessary Father
 Portrays fatherhood, as distinctive social role for men, as either necessary or

undesirable. It is argued that single mothers can raise children just as well as
a married couples can.
2. The Old Father

 The traditional patriarchal father, the masculine, aggressive, overbearing
father who wants to raise his daughters as girls and his sons as boys.
 The traditional masculine values are viewed as having been used to justify
wife and child abuse.
3. The new Father
 Portrays the father as nurturing individual, and a deeply involved parent.

 He agrees that the problem of being a male must be overcomes and that
masculine traits must also be removed from the male offspring
4. The Deadbeat Dad
 This is a bad guy.

 This is concerned not with the badness of the guy as father, but with his
failure to make required child-support payments.
 Money is the bottom-line; the core issue is money absence, not father
absence.
5. The Sperm Father
 Portrays the father in a minimalist role, a one-act dad.

 There are no expectations of him; he does not, and will not, know his child.
 He may have been a one-night stand, have done a favor for a friend, or have
sold some of his sperm on a sperm bank.
6. The Visiting Father
 He is effectively invisible.
 He is part father, part stranger; he sends in his child-support payments and
exercises certain limited rights, but has little authority over his child and less
influence on the child’s values and habits.
7. The Good Family Man

 He is not perfect but enough to be irreplaceable. He is married, stays around,
and is a father to his children.
 He believes that it is his responsibility to provide for his family’s well-being
and to help his wife raise their children to have a good moral character.
Kinship System
 Refers to human relations based on biological descent and marriage.

 It is founded on social differences and cultural creations.
Types of Kinship
1. Consanguinity – refers to the links between blood relatives.

2. Affinity – refer to the links between relatives by marriage.
Agents of Socialization
1. Family – it is the most important agent of socialization. It plays an important role

and has a special responsibility. It is usually the most influential group in the life
of the child.
2. School – it is the formal agent of socialization. Children weaned from home are
then introduced into the society.
3. Peers – the peer groups are another very potential agent of socialization. As
child grows, the role of the family in socialization is gradually supplemented and
at times replaced by the peer group.
4. Mass Media - it is a socializing agent primarily to inform, entertain and educate.
5. Religion – an agent of socialization that can assist in giving a society a sense of

direction. Morals and values which are inherent in religion can give guidance
about what is appropriate in terms of roles and behaviours of a society and
individual.
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COURSE TITLE: CRIM 5 – JUVENILE DELINQUENCY & JUVENILE JUSTICE

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY & JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

 The Family as an Institution

At the end of the term, the students of should be able to:

a. Define what is family

c. Be acquainted of the kinds of family under the family code.

TOPIC: The Family as an Institution

1. Reproduction – the family is the pre-requisite for the survival of a society to

2. Extended Family – refers to a family consisting of several generations of blood

5. Truncated Family – this is not a common form of family. It refers to the

1. The Corporate Model

 The father is the chief executive officer.

2. The Team Model

 The father is the head;

 The father is the general.

4. The Boarding School Model

5. The Theatrical Model

 The father is the producer, plays the role of the father.

1. The Unnecessary Father

 Portrays fatherhood, as distinctive social role for men, as either necessary or

2. The Old Father

3. The new Father

 Portrays the father as nurturing individual, and a deeply involved parent.

4. The Deadbeat Dad

 This is a bad guy.

5. The Sperm Father

 Portrays the father in a minimalist role, a one-act dad.

6. The Visiting Father

7. The Good Family Man

 Refers to human relations based on biological descent and marriage.

1. Consanguinity – refers to the links between blood relatives.

1. Family – it is the most important agent of socialization. It plays an important role

4. Mass Media - it is a socializing agent primarily to inform, entertain and educate.

5. Religion – an agent of socialization that can assist in giving a society a sense of

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