FAMILY LIFE

Ever wonder what helps to shape you into who you are? Your family plays an important role in your own development as well as in society. This course concentrates on the factors relating to the individual and the family unit as a whole. Concepts include: family structures, trends in family life, values, goals, healthy and abusive relationships, communication, functional and dysfunctional family concepts, marriage, human reproduction, pregnancy, teen pregnancy, childbirth and the development and care of children from birth to age one. Students have the opportunity to take the RealCare Babies home in order to learn about parenthood first hand.