Essays on Family Structure

Introduction

A family is a residential unit in the society. Gender roles are a significant contributor to family dynamics. They establish stability in the family. Since the past, it has been known that the man is the breadwinner of the household and the women are the caregivers. In the recent past, this aspect has drastically changed. Today women have become empowered to attain a status almost equal to that of men. They have dared to live an independent lifestyle and support the men in some cases. Some men on the other do not consider the importance of family in the ...

Food is important in every family structure. Food is something that all human beings need to live, but it is also something that humanity as a whole uses to build friendships and bonds. Although every culture places extreme importance on food, different cultures express cultural bonds with traditions and practices regarding food, community, and eating. In the Middle East, traditional practices of preparing food and eating food are extremely important within the family structure— and many of these practices remain the same across the cultures of the Middle East, regardless of the country. The cultures of the Middle East ...

A single parent as per Hetherington (2014), is an uncoupled person who spends most of the days’ responsibilities raising a child or children. The term can also be used to refer to a person who is unmarried, widowed or divorced but has a dependent child or children. The primary caregiver of a single family structure is the mother. Single parent structures are as a result of calamities such as death of the partner, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy. Currently in the United states single dads make approximately of 6% of the entire households while single mums make up approximately a ...

Gender is a very powerful category and one that many different people have used in order to explain culture and society. The role of women in society had for the longest time been constricted to the private sphere, the home, taking care of the children and being the primary Linchpin that could take care of the family and be the emotional and often moral center of the family. Women in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have gained more rights and have fought for equality with men. When Korean families immigrated to the United States in the ...

Introduction

Children raised in two-parent families have more advantages compared to their peers from divorced families. The family structure has changed such that almost half of the marriages end up in divorce. Children often develop emotional, behavioral and social problems due to the divorce cases. Most of these children also suffer from aggression and poor academic performance. It is obvious that children are the innocent victims of divorce. The question is; how can the well-being of children from divorced families be protected? The purpose of this research is to find ways through which children from divorced families can be assisted.

Article; Psychological perspectives

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Summary of the Article

The research paper "Adolescent Well-Being in Cohabiting, Married, and Single-Parent Families" was produced by Wendy D. Manning and Kathleen A. Lamb in 2003 and published in the peer-reviewed academic Journal of Marriage and Family. The fundamental aim of this study was to examine the well-being of adolescents living in different types of families, including single-parent, cohabiting, and married families, with a particular focus on cohabiting stepfamilies. The authors also thought to assess various socio-economic factors contributing to the well-being of teenagers. The researches performed the study on the basis of "the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to assess ...

Question 1: Demographic Changes in US families

The households in America are undergoing unprecedented changes that can affect the well-being and health of the country. Rapid and crucial variations in the family structures, work, and immigration have taken place. Family trajectories and living arrangements are increasingly complex and varied in the nation. The age of entering into marriage is at its all-time high with cohabitation being the first union option in American society. Due to the rise in the numbers of females in the workforce, many women have resorted to remain unmarried in the US. Also, the rates of remarriages and divorce have risen (Changing Families, ...

Evaluation

Social and emotional development The social and emotional development of a child depends on the environment around them. Children make decisions based on what they observe in the surroundings whether good or bad. Jarana’s different changes of being shy and outspoken would have been as an effect of the family structure. Jarana had older siblings who left the house while he was still young which made grow clingy to the parents (ABC, 2014). His emotional development appears dependent on the relationship with the mother. Some of the developments include temperaments which means how the child responds to the ...

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

In the environment nowadays, globalization has a significant effect on the contemporary family life in various ways. It affects both directly and indirectly through the strategies brought forward by social and economic policies. Therefore, to understand the effects globalization has on the changing nature of families, it is vital to know the definition of both globalization and families. From this viewpoint, globalization can be defined as an uncontrollable force that brings about the free market ethics as well as the preservation of transnational movement of labor, goods, and capital (Sherif-Trask 15). On the other hand, families are crucial in ...

Over the last few decades, the level of economic inequality has significantly increased, especially in the OECD countries (John 7). Essentially, the top earning population has acquired a large share of the overall gains in income. Fundamentally, there has been an increasing consensus that major assessment on the level of economic performance should not be based solely on income growth, but the distribution of income. Such assessments are highly concerned with the level of both economic and income inequality. Economic inequality measurements have numerous dimensions, and economists view it in terms of monetary assessments related to incomes for individual ...

Since family has played an important role as one of society’s basic structures, it is important to recognize the factors that are responsible for creating this institution. Some people might argue that a family is a unit connected with genetic factors – that it includes parents, children and other relatives. However, to better understand a family, one must understand that the term ‘family’ is constructed in a social way. The value of family has different meanings in different parts of the world depending on a variety of social and cultural conditions. Even on specific aspects like aging, education, or ...

Literary works have always been the mirrors of the society, and many of them have come to critique the subjugation of women. One can take into consideration the literary works, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House that delve into the influences of the society and the family in oppressing women. The respective narratives would lead to a better comprehension of the intricate influences and experiences that finally pave the way of the emancipation of the characters of Edna and Nora from the shackles of patriarchy and subjugation. A comparative analysis of the ...

SOLUTION-FOCUSED AND STRUCTURAL APPROACHES

Introduction of the Paper Family therapy belongs to one of the most comprehensive fields of knowledge, as professional therapist is to be aware of thousands of nuances of human life in order to manage every situation, which is possible to arise. As every human is individual, then every family is unique, hence, there is no universal approach to problem family. It is obvious, theoretical doctrine has accumulated general principles, which have been used for generations. Simultaneously, each family case is extremely sophisticated, with hundreds of hidden influences, secrets and weird aspects, which transform it into exceptional incident that demands ...

Modern America is in a situation of global transformation in all spheres of life. This is most clearly manifested in the radical change in traditional family values ​​and marriage, which leads to the erosion of semantic values ​​of the American mentality, the historical model of social change in the institution of family and marriage. “There is evidence, however, that the structure of social relationships in the United States has shifted in recent decades” (McPherson et al., 354). This paper discusses how television broadcasts family values ​​and patterns in American society during a few decades. In the 1950ies American family ...

If Jerry Falwell were alive today, he would likely be somewhat taken aback by the current election. He would certainly still keep his Republican views and support, but he would likely be voting for Ted Cruz. Both Cruz and Donald Trump hold many of the views that Falwell deemed important, but it is likely that Cruz is more in line with what Falwell believed; it is also likely that Trump might be too much for Falwell in regards to his larger than life media personality and celebrity. It is likely that Falwell would have believed that Trump’s famous ...

The Name of the University

The City Abstract Today, the family is one of the issues that is widely discussed among the society and sociologists, as it is the phenomenon that is very hard to define in the modern day society. The purpose of this report is to provide the critical view on contemporary issues of the family that include, first of all, the status of traditional family types like the nuclear and extended families, and, secondly, to understand the concept of family diversity in the British society. Another purpose of this paper is to identify factors and changes that contribute or influence family ...

Literary works have always been the mirrors of the society. In a society that is immensely patriarchal in its standards, many significant literary works have come to critique the subjugation of women. One can take into consideration the seminal literary works, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin and Henrik Isben’s A Doll’s House that delve into the influences of the society and the family in oppressing women. The female protagonists embody the inner spirit of female empowerment that is brought about by the surmounting effect of the patriarchal influences as Edna faces social pressure and Nora faces onus ...

The American family unit is currently undergoing a number of drastic and dramatic changes that are a concern both to the social systems of society and the criminal justice system. The changing face of the American family in terms of function and structure, for instance has a significant influence on delinquency and delinquent behaviors. Due to these changes currently being witnessed in the American family, the link between the family life and delinquency has become a critical issue in the contemporary American society. The extended family has, for the most part of the family structure, replaced the nuclear family ...

Take Home Exam 2016

Question #1: All about love In discussing the consequences of emotional underdevelopment in males with respect to society’s demands that they must show strength in being tough demonstrating no outward expression of physical or emotional pain, it is an unrealistic demand. Essentially, there is no significant biological differences between males and females to create this distorted demand. Males and females are humans with equal emotional needs. Why should a man due to gender suppress his needs and a woman allowed to cry and express hers being considered the weaker sex? More importantly, how do these emotional imbalances affect ...

Hortense Spillers “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book” was written when the author was looking for her generation of black women in the late 1970s and the mid-1980s. The history of black people has never been given the kind of recognition it is entitled to. The beginning of the essay provides several reflections on naming and the author opens a series of thoughts on the use of overdetermined nominative properties to describe black women. She describes how the everyday terminology is deeply historically embedded and it will need going back in time to undo what is done. ...

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Abstract

This research established in the article sought to explain the issue of marriage regarding Chinese rural young women and to give the grounds if the issue served as a risk or protective factor for their suicide. The analysis included a brief summary of the main ideas of the article, the purpose of the research, key findings and consequences of the results. Moreover, the major theoretical perspective to clarify the findings was based on Emile Durkheim’s social integration theory of suicide which highlights sources of people’s social support. The observations allowed ...