Kathleen Haywood Interview

For example, Kingsolver defends the notion that families of nontraditional arrangements do not need to be examined, ridiculed or treated differently with pity or tolerance as traditionally married families when she says, “Arguing about whether nontraditional families deserve pity or tolerance is a little like the medieval debate about left-handedness as a mark of the devil” (Kingsolver 16). By this statement, the author clearly expresses her belief that nontraditional families are just as successful in their roles as traditional or married families, though evidence gathered has rejected Kingsolver’s argument. In an article by Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, the authors present the benefits of marriage as opposed to divorced or single parenthood families. Naomi Gerstel writes that, “advocates [of marriage] such as David Popenoe and Linda Waite assert that marriage is good for one’s pocketbook, health, happiness, sex life, and kids. Both men and women who are married tend to have higher incomes, more wealth, better health, and more property than those who are not.” The article goes on to describe the negative impacts of divorce and nontraditional families by introducing National Census statistics of relationships between married parents and their children compared with

The most distinctive trait of American family life, then the trait that differentiates it from family life in other western countries, is sheer movement: frequent transitions, shorter relationships. Americans step on and off the carousel of intimate partnerships (marriages and cohabiting relationships) more often. Whether an American parent is married or cohabiting or raising children without a partner, she or he is more likely to change living arrangements in the near future than are parents in the rest of the western world. It is consequential and we should be concerned about it, both as parents and as a nation, because it may increase children’s behavioral and emotional problems. Simply pu, some children seem to have difficulty adjusting to a series of parents and parents’ partners moving in and out of their home. It is not just parental divorces and breakups that are hard for children. Even transitions that bring a new partner or stepparent into the home can be difficult to cope with. Children whose parents have remarried do not have higher levels of well-being than children in lone-parent (a parent who is neither married nor living with a partner) families, despite the addition of a second parent. One reason is that new

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 I interview Karla Bly who lives in Sioux Center. Mrs. Bly is married and has four children between the ages 25 and 12. She is 48 years old and has lived in Iowa for her entire life. The stage of life that Karla is in is middle adult hood, it is defined as, “The developmental period beginning at approximately 40 years of age and extending to about 60 to 65 years of age. For many people. Middle adult-hood is a time of declining physical skills and expanding responsibility.” (Santrock, 336) When Karla was in her 20’s and 30’s she thought that she knew everything, but it turned out that she did not know everything yet. When she was in her 20’s she had three little children running around at home, things were busy and chaotic.

Sixteen percent of families are headed by a woman- three-quarters because they’re divorced; the rest, except for one who is widowed, because they have never been married. Whenever possible, I interviewed wives, husbands, and teenage children, for a total of 388 separate in-depth, face-to-face, focused interviews (Rubin, 1994, pg.

Rainbow Rowell, in Eleanor and Park, tackles the issue of divorce and blended families. When looking at Eleanor’s life we can see how this issue affected her. Eleanor had decreased self-confidence, trust issues, social instability, confusion about the future, fear of rejection, and loss of her paternal relationships and figures (Rowell, 2013). This issue of divorce is so prominent in the United States and affects one million young adults every year (Block & Spiegel, 2017). Divorce can affect all family members of all ages, yet young adults are at such a pivotal age of development that the effects affect who they are becoming as a person.

In the United States of America, family life has been greatly important to the structure and function of society. A large part of this family life is the institution of marriage itself. Over the past few decades, the role and presence of marriage has been transformed. What once was a standard assumption in the home life of Americans has become increasingly less consistent. The Changing Landscape of Love and Marriage by authors Kathleen E. Hull, Ann Meier, and Timothy Ortyl discusses how and why these changes may have taken place on the basis of two primary conclusions. The first of these is the idea that marriage has lost it’s taken-for-granted status, and the second being the fact that both adults and children are experiencing more upheaval in their personal lives than in the past.

In the introduction to the article, the authors David Gately and Andrew Schwebel best wrote “Karl Zinsmeister uses studies of children and divorce to argue against the contention made by many parents that it is better to divorce than to rear children in a marriage with conflict. He maintains that children’s sense of stability and family structure supersedes parental needs.” Throughout the article Zinsmeister uses the headings “Fear and Loathing of Divorce Among the Young”, “Short and Long-Term effects of Divorce on Children”, and “A Catalogue of Behavioral Changes” as a platform to prove/explain his opinions and back them by research.

Maturing, developing relationships, and human development are simply a fact of life and affect everybody to a different degree. The topic of human development is broad due to the wide range of lifestyles and cultures. The favorite daughter of the Kennedy lineage, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy experienced a rather unique upbringing considering both the era that she was born into as well as the elite social and affluent economic status that she was brought up in. Having lived during World War II, Kick had some uncommon experiences in her early to mid-life such as experiencing the loss of many people close to her as well as some commonalities like having a significant other consume a significant portion of her life.

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Professor Jennifer Green. What Professor Green and I talked about what was her education and career path. I decided to ask her about why she had chosen to pursue her degrees and career. I asked questions pertaining to her education, her past schools, interest in her field of study, what made her want to be a teacher, why she came to central, and her passion for film and journalism. Honestly going into this interview I was excited to learn more about a professor especially one whose class I found was interesting, challenging and make me think more in-depth to achieve a better sense of understanding films for more than just their face value. After the interview, I was excited to write this paper due

In our culture today most people accept divorce as a way of life. We see love as a cure to everything and something hate and revenge. Our movies and our stories and our history all celebrate it as life’s ultimate goal, the final solution for all of our pain and struggle. Writer/producer Alvarez Rafael wrote an article  “The changing face of the American family: A conversation with John Hopkin University (JHU) sociologist Andrew Cherlin explained how marriage shaped life in America's cities and culture. In fact (Alvarez, 2016) discover this “Marriage used to be the only path to adulthood for Americans. Now there are multiple paths. You can live with somebody and have a child with them. You can have a series of relationships or remain single

I remember on my first day of preschool, my mom told me, “Abby, don’t tell your teachers about your family.” Sitting in my car seat, at the age of 4, I was starting to become overwhelmed with confusion. This confusion bubbled up inside me for years. I had so many questions that I wanted to ask my moms, but I did not have the courage or the strength to ask. Then I grew up. My perspective on the world changed, and I realized that my parents were seen as a calamity to society. That was my perspective though. I wondered what my mom’s was. How did she grow up in a world that only saw her as a flaw in the system? So I asked. Beth Shaffer’s perspective on her past, the present, and the future is an astonishing story.

According to Gratton and Gutmann (2010) changes in the family household have changed ever since World War II. Fertility rates and young people moving out on their own has severely decreased household size (Gratton & Gutmann, 2010). Empty-nest households have become a dominant living arrangement in the 21st century. Nagy and Theiss (2013) reported finding in past research that an empty nest did increase marital satisfaction and greater happiness. Nagy and Theiss also reported that research has shown that an empty-nest has also been correlated with decreasing marital satisfaction as well. Since there has been such an increase in an empty-nest household, research in this particular area has become of importance

I think of the nuclear type family and younger children. For me as a young adult, I believe that I will be fine on my own, but that my family will have a hard time disconnecting and reconnecting as a result. Establishing my own identity outside of them has been a difficult task thus far even though I have differing opinions on most topics. I am excited to explore and create my own identity as an individual, but know that my family will have some difficulties with this. As the book mentioned, this is also a time for striking a balance between career aspirations and starting my own family in the future (Gladding, 2015). For now, I believe I need to create a space for my personal autonomy as I finish school and then move towards starting my own family. With that being said, I do struggle with the idea of needing to “get married soon” every once in a while, but I am still young and feel that I can still meet someone eventually within the next couple years. So, I am comfortable with this idea for

Johnson et al. also conforms another task which is to form intimate and differentiated relationships with peers. They are also jointing the workforce and developing working identity and gaining financial independence. However, according to Hughes (n.d) the emotional turmoil of their parents’ divorce can make it difficult for them to focus on a career or form friendships. Hughes added that making life-altering decisions in this stage of the life cycle can be extremely difficult for the men and women of divorce.

Each and every day a child somewhere in the world is experiencing major changes within their family. One of those major changes is divorce or separation of parents. Divorce is “the action or an instance of legally dissolving a marriage”(Webster, 2011 p1). Today’s reality shows that couples only have one in two odds of remaining together. “ The U.S. Census bureau – involved in research about counseling children of divorce- estimating that approximately 50% of all American children born in 1982 lived in a single-parent homes sometime during their first 18 years. Mostly are due to divorce”(Children of Divorce, 2008 p.1). The rapid increase in divorce rates is a factor that has contributed to the large decline of the typical family. “Over 1