Fragile Families

Cohabitation- Two people who are not married live together in an emotionally and/or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis

Marriage a long-standing fundamental to functional society. Marriage is a perspective of what used to be socially the beginning of a nuclear family. A nuclear family consisting of a father, mother, and children. In the twentieth century it was considered proper in society to be married before having children. However, this is no longer the case in modern United States. What aspects are there that make our generation susceptible to cohabitation instead of marriage?

In preparing for my quantitative research I reviewed three articles relating to the wellbeing of the milspouse. The first article, “Military Deployment and the Spouse Left Behind”, Asbury and Martin (2011) included both male and female milspouses who were civilians or they were active duty personnel themselves. They gathered their data via a voluntary online survey which measured the spouses’ depression, anxiety, perceived social support, and marital discord. They focused on the differences between the civilian milspouses and the military milspouses and hypothesized that the military milspouses would experience more depression, have higher rates of anxiety, experience higher rates of isolation and marital discord than their civilian counter parts. They found no significant difference between the groups in depression, anxiety, or perception of social support. They did discover in the marital discord findings there was a significant statistical differences between participants with a spouse in the military and the participants with civilian a spouse. “The results showed that participants with military spouses had more marital discord being that 80% of the military milspouses and only 17% of the civilian milspouses had frequently considered divorce.” (2011, p. 47)

I was not shocked regarding the other questions; however, I do feel that this type of questionnaire was too broad. As suggested above, if we were given additional questions regarding the category, I believe that the outcome would have

Single-Parent homes are defined as “families in which either the father or mother is absent because of divorce, marital separation, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, or death” (Greenberg, 2002: 329).

As time progresses, family structures are rapidly shifting. In 2007, unmarried parents produced 40% of US children. This was over twice the 18 percent in 1980 and about eight times greater than the 5% in 1960 (Waldfogel, Craigie, Brooks-Gunn, 2).  In a study of 5000 children in many large cities, 3,700 of them were born to unmarried mothers. According to Waldfogel, Craigie, and Brooks-Gunn, such familiar conditions are dangerous because of the way that single mothers and unmarried parents tend to have less stable lives and relationships

The questions posed during the study would include open-ended as well as closed-ended questions, these can include,” strongly agree, agree somewhat, disagree somewhat, or strongly disagree” (Babbie, 2015 p.276).

Interracial children have been born since the days in American when slavery took place. Many slave owners would rape their slaves and conceive children with them. Some slave

As you stated the authors mention that caution should be utilized when the results are interpreted. The research methods of questionnaires and self-reporting,

This research paper provides a theoretical perspective on the effects that military deployment has on marital relationships. The background section investigates the five different military branches, what stressors are involved for those in military relationships, and a brief history of what military relationships were like in the past. In the literature review, readers will explore research studies that have been conducted in the past five years that pertain to military couples. There are three themes that will be pointed out throughout the literature review; the psychological effects deployment has on

UK Health and Social Care System with the effect of policies and legislations in England Health care system

Deportation continues to reach all-time highs in our nation. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records, 72,410 people deported in 2013 said they had one or more U.S.-born children. Of those, 39,410 appear reported in the first half of the calendar year 2013 and the remaining 33,000 in the second half. In other words, in one year alone, many thousands of U.S.-citizen kids are separated from at least one parent (Cantor, 2014). Deporting family members can cause trauma to family and may violate 1990 child abuse. Separation from family members can cause undue trauma to children and may violate the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990. Separation of adult family members during the deportation process has also shown

mothers may be specific to the mother's own situation and have no relation to the

the young person is married, in a civil union or living with a de facto partner

The family in this situation becomes less important as an educating an gent where the parents the child is living will have to re – marry , either the man or woman, the child may not be acceptable by the step parent. Thus, such a child