Reflection About Family

After countless hours of researching The Functionalist, Conflict, and Interactionist Perspectives, I now see just how similar and how very different they are in relation to family. Society is given to separation based on personal beliefs, functions, color, creed, etc. The given perspectives show how societies as a whole view their socialistic status.

There have been a vast number of lives that have touched mine. Many different people have shared a piece of their soul in my formation. However, it is my mother who is the most important and most influential person in my life. My mother raised me by herself since the day I was born. My father was abusive and she left to make a better life for the both of us. She has worked as many as four jobs at one time. My mother wants to make sure my brothers and I have a better life than she did. It hasn’t always been easy for her, taking care of us on her own, trying to pay bills and making sure we had everything we needed. My mom has always had us involved in sports at a very young age. We always were doing something or involved in something

I turned from the computer to my dad. He proceeded to give me the same speech that he had given me so many times in middle school. But this time, I wasn't phased at all. Instead of defending myself, I respectfully listened. When he was done talking, I told him that living comfortably didn’t matter to me and that I wanted to work in a field that I truly loved and enjoyed. He was stunned. Later that week, I was working on homework one evening when he knocked on my bedroom door.

My family's traditions and food also has an impact on who I am. My family has always been the ones to go all out on holidays and gets all the family together and eats a lot of food. The main holidays for my family are birthdays, Thanksgiving New Years and especially Christmas. A majority of my childhood memories are of all my family just being together for holidays and eating my grandma?s famous tamales. I feel

Ever since I was born we were considered a low income family where my mom attends to household needs and my dad is the only one who works. This brings up conflicts in the home in which both my parents burst out into arguments about money. My dad says he can’t afford to pay rent, at times, and tries to find ways out without losing everything he has worked for. As they argued, I thought to myself that maybe I should work to give my family a hand out of this situation. While they were arguing I interrupted them and told them what I thought, my dad grinned and said, “Focus on your education, be someone, create yourself a

Many people celebrate various traditions all over the world on holidays, birthdays etc. those traditions can define a race, culture, and nations but there are specific ones that represent your family. My family is set apart by carrying the spirit of Christmas by traveling to New York. We go to see many sights such as the Rockefeller Christmas Tree that marks that Christmas has officially begun. With Red Cross employees in the background with Christmas music ringing bells in hopes of people donating money to aid others in need. As well as going to see the most iconic play of the holiday season and on Broadway being the Nutcracker.

As I entered my teen years, my father expected more out of me than just being a good student. Dad always seemed to have projects going on around the house, and I became his helper. It did not matter what the project was, he always seemed to need my help and I was not happy about that. I had better things to do than wasting a weekend working around the house. Somehow my dad knew how to do everything and felt it was his job to teach all of it to me. I was a teenager and had all of the knowledge I would ever need, so I thought. As it turned out, most of the skills I obtained helping my father led me to a rather lucrative career in manufacturing a few years later.

May family has had a drastic effect on who i am as a person and what I want to become. Ever since I was a young child I looked up to the determination of my parents. They were graduates of Ricks college. Both coming from low income families they worked hard to attend college and work for the careers that they wanted to pursue. They took any possible jobs in order to pay for the education they seeked and this included early hours and late nights. They studied and both received their Doctorates. My mom became an OB GYN and a College Professor in the school that she used to attend, and my dad became a successful Physical Therapist. They started from nothing and were able to create a successful future for me and my sister.

My upbringing typically consisted of my 2 sisters, my mother, and my father who I would now and again see. The obstacles I faced due to a periodic father has played a huge part in constructing my personality and has made me a hardworking independent young man thanks to the influence of a mothers love.

From my dad, I have learned that if you know what you want and work hard, you can accomplish anything. Even if things don’t go exactly as I planned, I know that he will always be there to support

Although I have many people who impacted my life, the most significant one life is my mom. She is the sole person who is responsible for making me who I am today and shaped the life I lead. My mother taught me how to read, write, play the violin and piano, and study. With her guidance, I can go to school to increase my knowledge and make friends. Because she did all of this for me out of love, she has changed my world and the opportunities to come my way.

Since my family lived so close together, we had many family traditions that remain important. We gather for nearly every holiday for a meal and routine. For Easter every year, we have an Easter egg hunt and dinner at my grandmother’s house. For Christmas Eve, we always went to my great-grandparents house and had dinner and exchanged gifts. For Christmas, we celebrated at home, and then went to my grandmother's for breakfast with our cousins. The importance of all of the holidays we celebrated was that no matter what was going on in our lives,

Family has assumed a key part in molding me into the individual I am today. However, as I have matured, I have developed my own standards in view of my comprehension of the world. My family 's qualities are anchored firmly on religion and we attempt to live the values that the Bible lays out. Growing up, my family instilled Christian qualities into me and these qualities are imbued in my memory and I attempt to practice them despite the fact that I don 't generally succeed. As of now, I am driven by aspiration and yearning to be at peace with myself. I have certain objectives I need to accomplish and my qualities and morals have advanced to incorporate them while attempting to keep up those morals I learned when I was young. There since have been occurrences whereby I have gotten in difficulties and I need to settle on what I know to be right and what serves my self-interest. I can 't assert that I generally make the best choices. Yet, I pride myself on being principled. Usually, I adhere to a specific way on the off chance that I feel that it is right with my beliefs. My struggle with is with the whisper in my ear attempting to occupy me from my previously chosen way, however I am persistent, resolute, and take after what I have confidence in to be right to me. I rarely make serious ethical violations but I will not hesitate to own my actions.

As I reflect on this five-week course of Marriage and Family, it has challenged me to embrace who I am as a biblical woman of God and continue to grow in Christ. I am free to be that biblical woman. God has made me in His image and I am to bear this image to the world. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27 English Standard Version). I know that God desires for me to be that woman of excellence, as I strive every day to live out the truth of who God is and to glorify and serve Him. “In this culture, there is so much emphasis on the outward beauty of a woman. “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price” (1 Peter 3:3-4 King James Version. As a biblical woman, I do not look for the world to validate who I am. It is the truth of God’s word that validates me. I give all reference to God, for the woman I am. “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised” (Proverbs 31:30 English Standard Version).

”No one is ever born into Life alone. Everyone has shared the bond of family, at least at birth, and for many people it is a bond that will follow them throughout life. For many people it is the most important bond of all.”