Child Devevlopment

Types of family

Nuclear family (when parents live with their children).
Extended family (when grandparents and other family live near by).
Step family (when one parent re-marries and the children then live with them).
Single parent family (when only one parent looks after the children).
Shared care family (when the mother and father have split up and the child lives between both houses).
Adoptive family (when a child lives in a care home and gets adopted by new parents).

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Natural family planning (planning around your menstrual cycle, its not reliable).
Withdrawl method (removing the penis before sperm is released, its not reliable).
Absention (saying no to sex, its 100% reliable).
The morning after pill (taken 72 hours after unprotected sex).
Male condom (a method worn by the male to catch sperm, its only 98% effective).
Diaphragm (a plastic cap placed in the cervix, its only 92%-96% effective).
IUD (a plastic device which releases copper into the uterus which stops sperm being able to fertalize, its only 99% effective).
Combined pill (contains oestrogen and progestogen, its 100% effective).
Contraceptive implant (slowly releases progestrogen, its 99% effective).

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Tetis (produces sperm and testosterone).
Scrotum (bag of skin containing two testis).
Sperm duct (sperm travels through this from the testes to the uretha).
Prostate gland and seminal vesicles (adds fluids to the sperm to form semen).
Uretha (this tube transports semen and urine out of the body.
Penis (varies in length depending on different males).
Foreskin (covers and protects the end of the penis).

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Uterus (a pear-shaped organ the size of a clenched fist,it increased from 30g to 1kg in weight during pregnancy).
Lining of the uterus (comes away during mensturation if an fertalized egg hasnt been implanted).
Funnel (catches the released ova and sends it to the fallopian tube).
Ovaries (there are two ovaries, they release eggs monthly).
Vagina (10-12cm long and leads from the outside of the body to the cervix).
Cervix (a strong ring of muscle at the neck of the uterus with a small opening to let menstrual blood out).

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