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Educational Needs Of Families In Turkey
ronment and society for a growing child. Therefore, it is especially an important social
test area.
Family, which is one of the main components of the social life, is an economic and
social institution made up of mother, father, children and blood relationships of the
parties. Due to its vital quality family ranks first among social institutions. This is because,
one of the duties of the family is to reproduce and maintain human kind. Another
reason for family’s becoming a social institution is role, which it plays in
socialization of the child. In this way, family takes a very great part in generating,
bringing up and protecting the child and ensuring acceptance of the child into society.
As a result of its biological, sociological and psychological structure, family performs
many duties such as meeting individual and social needs like sexual intercourse, reproduction,
protection and sheltering, loving and being loved, sharing love, being dependent
and independent, belonging, obtaining a status, reliance, self-realization, care and
education of children, transfer of social customs and ideals and acquired goods and
knowledge to new generations. Basic functions of the family are regulated by society.
These duties can be collected under five titles:
1. Biological duty, which protects existence of the family and ensures the
continuance of the generation.
2. Economical duty, which meets all sorts of material needs of the family members.
3. Protection duty, which protects family members against all sorts of material
and spiritual damages.
4. Psychological duty, which provides opportunity for development of emotional
balance within family.
5. Educational duty, which ensures training and socialization of family members.
Family, which is an economic and social institution made up of mother, father,
children and blood relationships of the parties, is at the centre of social life in terms of
functions it achieves. However, family that previously considered as centre of happy,
harmonious and balanced life becomes distant to this outlook gradually as a result of
the changes experienced in social life. Rise in divorce rates, increase in number of the