Mrs Ross Family Roles

The Dust Bowl brought upon grueling times to the hard-working farmers of the Southern United States. As shown in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, everybody was changed due to the horrid conditions of the time, especially the migrants. One character who changed throughout the course of the novel, was Ma. At the beginning of the book, Ma was a quiet mother who cooked and cared for the Joads, and was there to fall back on to help and judge tough situations. Near the end of the novel, Ma transforms into the head of the family, making decisions, and keeping the family from splitting.

In today’s society, most families consist of both parents working and with that comes the conflict of shared childcare, nurturing and shared household responsibility. Since the day of old, it was and always has been the mothers’ responsibility to care for the child and the home. To cook, clean, feed the children and attend to the husband's needs. Of course, this concept also depending on the culture of which the couple was brought up on (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Harmon Hanson, 2015).

One of the issues that the family is encountering will be financially since they are a lot of members living in the same house. Another family member is Alejandro living with them who works and goes to college. Alejandro is fully bilingual and is trying to help his parents, but dislikes his job and has been feeling emotionally unstable. There is also Carmen who is hearing impaired due to Celia contracting rubella while pregnant. Carmen needs help figuring out what college she wants to attend and how to get scholarships and this will possibly put the family at a financial hardship. There’s also the other daughter Emilia who had Joey and he’s been with parents’ in

Both men and women hope to be parents someday, and both recognize the importance of working and parenting. While some are confident leaving their children with a nanny for extended periods of time, most students portrayed a desire to be financially stable and have time to cultivate memories with their family. They then went on to say that both parents would have to work at least part-time in order to make such a family dynamic work for the benefit of

To conclude, we always assume that the man, usually the one earn more, is the main support of the family, but we should remember that the woman always contributes mentally and does most of the housework. She and her husband are two people seemingly brought together by love but ultimately kept together by

In our society, we carry an ideological assumption that a “normal” family consists of the man working to provide for the family and the women takes on the role of stay-at-home mom (Dow 1992).

In “The Myth Of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed To Be. How It Was.,” Hope Edelman lays out the many obstacles she and her husband, John, had to overcome in their first years of marriage. She admits that from the beginning she assumed that all responsibilities would be split 50/50: if she contributed to the household income, he would contribute to helping out with childcare and housekeeping. But because John was in the midst of starting a new business and was working up to 92 hours per week, Edelman quickly realized how wrong her assumption was. As her own work hours started to dwindle down to about 18 per week, Edelman started to become extremely angry with the way her household as being run. She wanted John there to help her make decisions,

The Freeland household/family consists of mother, Melanie Freeland and her two children, Mason and Tracy Freeland. Mason is sixteen years old and Tracy is thirteen years old. The family would be considered middle to lower-middle class. This is evidenced by Ms. Freeland’s blue collar job as a hair stylist, which she does out of her home. Although the family seems to have all their basic needs met (the children and parent all have clothes, food, and an appropriate residence) their financial situation seems inconsistent because of Ms. Freeland’s occupation. This is evidenced by Ms. Freeland’s comment of, “Don’t worry, I worked all week,” when she responded to Tracy asking about

This family has gone through many obstacles, Sandra's husband got injured at his job ten years ago and since then he has been living with his disability checks and Sanda works as a babysitter. Both parents do not have stable jobs where it is promising they will get a good amount of money every two weeks. They struggle to give their two youngest children a few extras. Sandra and her husband try to give as much as they can, but two things Sandra does give them is trust and good communication. "Subsequent studies have affirmed the importance of parents, partially of their warmth communication acceptance and involvement in their children's lives" (ch 12, pg 279) Sandra will not judge her children, even if she does not agree with what they are doing. She is also a authoritative parenting, "the approach is to put boundaries on acceptable behaviors within a warm

Her Parents are her role models. Her mom works as maid and a babysitter, her dad works

Joan’s family was selected for this because she has experienced parenting, marriage, and divorced at the tender age of twenty-five. She has also taken on other significant responsibilities such as purchasing a home and a vehicle in addition to raising two children solely on her income. Joan is driven and motivated to pursue and finish her education; rear her children in a stable home environment, despite facing the challenges of single parenting. She does not receive any type of financial spousal or child support from her ex-husband. Joan’s ex-husband is currently employed as a police officer and lives with another woman. The ex-husband rarely interacts with the children; he sees them only when his mother keeps them for Joan. Joan heavily relies on her parents and other family members to assist her with finances and childcare.

The next set of questions prepared for the family had to do with the responsibilities of the each member. There are many day-to-day tasks that are needed to be completed to keep the family functional and happy. Both Ivonne and Marvin are social workers for the city of East LA, and Ivonne has recently decided to go back to school to peruse a Master degree. The couple has to work 10 hour daily, keep food on the table, a roof over their head and feed there “children” aka Lady and Frijol. Socity has a general expectation of the women being the one the one to prepare dinner, doing the shopping, etc. And on the other hand the man is suppose to be the breadwinner and be

The Williams are an African American family. Audrey is a 45 year old female who is currently a housewife. She has a bachelor degree in English. Ronald is 47 and works with the mayor as a member of his campaign team. Ronald and Audrey have been married for 15 years. The couple has been experiencing problem because Ronald has been working a great deal lately. Ronald and Audrey have one son Michael. Michael is a 21 year old male. He attended college for one year but dropped out because he wanted to travel. The Williams are wealthy which is evident by their neighborhood and residence. According to Audrey, the family used to go on trips, vacations, and spent quality time together. The family reported no history of abuse, violence,

Although the parents are seen as equals in the household, the father is to bring home money to provide for the household while the child is being taken care of by the mother.

husband and a dutiful, confidant wife. However, they aren’t much of a family at all, with little to