Family Beliefs

Over the course of time, there have been many debates dealing with religion and various laws. A concern that has arisen from these debates was the denial of health care for these religious families, and how it would impacts the children. There are many various opinions on this topic ranging from a strong belief in the healing powers of God to a strong stance that the refusal of health care results in child abuse. These self healing parents believe that medicine is not need to heal themselves or children. Instead, they believe that God is all they need to be healthy. However, should the religious belief of these parents give them the right to refuse health care for their family? While these parents should be allowed to express their

Where do family values stand in today’s world? There is the traditional family that make ends meet no matter what and more common today is the modern family that take divorce like it is no big deal. Kingslover and White give great examples of what a traditional family is like and how the modern family is taking over. The world makes it easy to deplete family values in this day and age but really divorce has been considered for centuries. Divorce has become a regular occurrence and highly prevalent in today’s society, which is focused upon and exemplified throughout the essay “Stone Soup,” whereas, traditional family values and permanent marital status is shown in “Once More to the Lake.”

Through my interactions with my extended family over the course of this project, it has become evident that there are specific traditions and values that each side of my family holds dear. Despite my premonition that interviewing my family would be a rather simple and straightforward endeavor, getting the information that I was hoping to find from my family has been anything but easy. Both sides of my family certainly have some common values and traditions between them; however, each side has its own distinct folklore and values that have been instilled over several generations. These traditional family values have come to be one of the most notable differences between the two halves

I grew up in a catholic conservative family, but that did not define me. My mom’s heritage had a huge impact in our household. She is Hispanic and Italian and our life revolved around food and family. We would help my mom cook as we danced around to Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, and Celia Cruz. My dad worked a lot of the time, but when he was home we played sports outside and watched movies with him. Every Friday night was family movie night, which my brothers and I looked forward too.

Family life Education is to help families become a stronger unit through the proper education. There are so many different thoughts and beliefs pertaining to the family life education program. There have been good and bad beliefs, but the majority have been trying to improve the family and the education system that has been taught.

Given that my maternal family is Muslim and my paternal family beliefs consist of Christianity and Agnosticism, I cultivated a natural aptitude for open communication and cooperative with others who hold beliefs and ideas that differ from my own. Being born as an African American male with a Muslim family in Southern Mississippi subjected me at a young age to be aware of highly nuiance social dynamics that are present in society. Furthermore, growing up around refugees from the Middle East and experiencing their almost contradictory perspective on the value of rights and opportunities here in the States allowed me to form multifaceted viewpoints. Also, my time attending both the poverty stricken schools of inner city Detroit and the wealth of an upper class Boy Scout Troop, not even eight miles away from each other, allowed me to experience first hand the unique role that environment plays in shaping an individual’s perspective. These any many other experiences have shaped

Our family values giving to those in need and living within our means, without debt. My Dad is 71 and has been retired since I was born; a choice made so one of my parents could be home for me. We have lived on one income and have never gone without. We have been saving for college, but have fallen short of the needed funds. Based on our FAFSA, I do not qualify for grant money or need based scholarships. That means the entire burden of my educational expense falls on our family.

Religious inheritance can be explained as the passing down of religious beliefs (or lack thereof) and customs through a family line. In some cases, religious beliefs and traditions in a family will be rejected, but in many cases, children take on the religious background of their family members. This particular situation with religious inheritance has been the case for me on my own personal faith journey.

Over the past few decades, greater attention has been given to the relation between the social institution of family and religion. “A key concept in the social sciences and especially in demography and sociology is that of the family. The family is generally regarded as a major social institution and a locus of much of a person’s social activity.” (Nam, Charles, 2004) Religion is another institution that plays a huge role in society and American life. As our text states, “Most Americans believe in a deity, three-fourths pray at least weekly, and more than half attend religious services at least monthly.” (Ch. 17.1) There are several different views in regards to the meaning behind family and religion as social institutions such as the viewpoint of Karl Marx. Marx understood that religion served a purpose or a function in society but did not agree as to the basis of that function. Whereas the viewpoint of Emile Durkheim believed that religion is the most fundamental social institution, with almost all other social institutions, at some point in human history, being born from it. Today, the social institution of religion is, for lack of a better word, shoved in societies faces. The family has always been an extremely important social institution and will be now and in the future.

Parenting methods have been affected by numerous factors over the years. Parenting is something that is obviously successful or in the worst case, has failed miserably! We found that the parents' religious affiliation affects the way they raise their children. "The particular theologies theory posits that different religious affiliations put varying efforts into emphasizing family-formation strategies" (Pearce 2002: 325). Religious affiliations, inspired parents to be fervent on implanting strong morals, maintaining close relational ties within their family, and encourage positive community involvement with their particular religious affiliation.

Throughout my entire life, it seemed as though everything was centered around my family’s collective core morals and an unwritten ethic code instilled in me as I grew up. My family’s principles remain a major part of my life, especially as I begin the transition to independence in the adult world. Considering my family has always been one of the most important things to me, I have always placed value on what I have learned from them and where we come from. My big, small-town family gave me a sense of what it means to help others, how we can accomplish this goal, and for what reasons. Being raised in a close-knit, Christian family with strong values will assist me in understanding how to be successful in terms of compassion and

Both religion and family are essential parts in the running of any society. Religion is the belief in a supernatural authority which unites a group of people. Normally, a family consist of people who share the same bloodline; however, it may also consist of a group of people who are legally bonded such as adopted children. In whatever type of the family, strong and healthy bonds are necessary. Among other factors, religion plays a significant role in strengthening the family bonds. In many religions of the world, family comes first. For instance, in the Bible, God created man and woman so that they could reproduce and fill the earth. In addition, God gave man power over all other living things. This shows how important people are to God. Notably, various religions have different values and expectations on families. For instance, Islam allows polygamy while Christianity allows monogamy. The relationship between family and religion can be evaluated using the functionalism perspective of sociology. This essay explains the functionalism perspective and analyses the interactions between religion and family.

Religion has always been a big part of my family. I was raised in a pretty strict catholic home. Going to church every Sunday, needing to learn all the prayers, doing my first communion, and then doing my confirmation. As I started to get older I started having more of an open mind towards things, especially religion. All you have to do is look on the news and you can see all the evil in the world. Terrorist attacks, kids getting shot down by cops, and school shootings. How can someone be so evil to walk into an elementary school and kill innocent 6 and 7-year-olds? There isn’t any justification for this; the kids and parents didn’t deserve this undeserved pain and suffering. That’s why I believe that there is an evidential problem with evil.

Ezequiel Pagan  Patrick Williams  English 111  16 October 2014   Family Value and Truth  Family in society is a social structure. Family plays a key role in human life because it can give  people a sense of home, or a loving and supportive group. In most cases when people think of families  they think of having a mom, dad, brother, sister.  However, nothing in life is perfect. Today, we have  separated , same sex, extended, and blended families. Society tries to explain these more contemporary  families but has a harsh way of doing so. In the essay, Stone Soup, by Barbara Kingsolver, she  discusses how society views families and in the essay, Family Values, by Richard Rodriguez, he talks  about American family values. Both

What is a family? What parts make up a family? These two questions are questions that millions of adults and children ask themselves regularly. When people think about a family in their head they think of a nuclear family. Where you have a Mom, Dad, and a few kids running around a home in the middle of a suburban wasteland. That is the nuclear family that I feel most modern families strive to be like. But factors can change within a family and still be a family. I do not believe that a family is strictly based off what people see from the front porch looking in. A family is about the everlasting bond that is formed between a group of people whether they are related by blood or by other means. A family is a group of people who stick together during hard times and good times, they laugh together and they cry together. They eat meals together, party together, are weaved together in life. They are like a strip of palm leaves, and when you weave a bunch of them together it makes a basket, that is a family. The people that someone can call at two in the morning on a Wednesday just because they can’t sleep. The ones who would sacrifice anything to help them. The bond can never be broken because the word “family” holds them together like glue to wallpaper.