an institution that receives for the study, diagnosis and temporary treatment, children who have behavioral problems for the purpose of determining the appropriate care for them.

Reception and study center

a child without a parent, guardian or custodian.a child without a parent, guardian or custodian.

Dependent child

a child who has no proper parental care or guardianship.

Abandoned child

his/her basic needs have been deliberately unattended or inadequately attended.

Neglected child

when the child is malnourished, ill clad and without proper shelter.

Physical neglect

it provides 24 hours resident group care service for the physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being of nine or more mentally gifted, dependent, abandoned, neglected, handicapped or disturbed children.

Child-caring institutions

it is a twenty-hour child-caring institution providing short term resident care for youthful offenders.

Detention home

it provides temporary protection and care to children requiring emergency reception or a result of fortuitous events.

Shelter care institution

it is a family-type home, which provides temporary shelter from ten to twenty days for children who shall, during this period, be under observation.

Recieving home

most important agent in socialization.

Familiy

formal agent of socialization.

School

another very potential agent of socialization.

Peers

may be in the form of print, broadcast or electronic.

Mass media

an agent of socialization that can assist in giving a society a sense of direction

Religion

links between blood relatives.

Consanguinity

links between relatives by marriage.

Affinity

it refers to a family consisting of a husband and wife plus their children.

Nuclear family

consisting of several generations of blood relatives. Consist of two nuclear family; the family of orientation and the family of procreation.

Extended family

it refers to married children with their spouses and children living in one residence:

Joint family

consist of one individual or a hundred individuals. The individuals may or may not be related to one another.

House hold

this is not a common form of family. This refers to the grandparent-grandchild relationship. Happens when grandparents assumed the parental responsibility when the parents die and they act as surrogate parents.

Truncated family

it refers to family formed by two families - the family of orientation and the family of procreation.

Stem family

the family is a prerequisite for the survival of a society to replace one generation to the next.

Reproduction

the family serves as a protector for all its members.

Security

primarily the social institution that is responsible for the early development of an individual's personality. It is instilled in the child the attitudes, norms and values.

Socialization

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.

Assignment status

"home sweet home, for there the heart can rest", The best way to describe the kind of emotional support a family can give.

Emotional suppurt

- it provides the mechanism in terms of transmittal of inheritance or private property and serves as the economic base for producing goods and services.

Other functions

this is practiced in Japan. If the family does not have a son to preserve their surnames, the prospective son-in-law adopts the family name of the bride's parents before marriage.

Adopted marriage

called Sister-in-law marriage. It is called as such because a man remarries his deceased wife's sister.

Sororate marriage

reverse of sororate marriage. This is a marriage where a woman marries the deceased husband's brother.

Levirate marriage

similar to levirate marriage. The children of the woman who married the deceased husband's brother are considered "sired" by the dead husband. The second husband or the brother is only a "surrogate" or who substituted for his brother.

Ghost marriage

refers to the norms which dictate that an individual should marry from a member of one's clan or ethnic group.

Endogamy marriage

this marriage prescribes that one marries outside of one's clan or ethnic group.

Exogamy

newly married couple lives in their own residence.

Neolical Residence

- newly married couple moves in with the husband's parents.

Parrilocal residence

newly married couple moves in with the wife's parents.

Matrilocal residence

newly married couple shifts residence from matrilocal to patrilocal residence.newly married couple shifts residence from matrilocal to patrilocal residence.

Bilocal residence

marriage of one male and one female. It is a form of marriage in which an individual has only one spouse during their lifetime at any one time.

Monogamy

marriage between one person of one sex and a minimum of two persons of the other sex.

Polygamy

marriage of one woman to two or more men.marriage of one woman to two or more men.

Polyandry

marriage of one man to two or more women.

Polygyny

it refers to Group Marriage (also known as Multilateral Marriage) is a form of polyamory in which more than two persons form a family unit.

Plural marriage

is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman centered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family. - Also called Matrimony or Wedlock

Marriage

it is a document issued, either by a church or state authority, authorizing a couple to marry.

Marriage license