Sanchez Family Case Study

This paper will attempt to thoughtfully and critically analyze theories and perspectives and apply them in assessing two members of the Sanchez family, Gloria and Emilia. Case studies adapted from www.routledgesw.com/cases.

The family being discussed is the Romero family. Venessia Romero was a single mother that gave birth to two children a boy and girl. The girl passed away leaving Venessia with a little boy. Venessia remarried an air force sergeant Joseph Romero. He adopted the little boy and named him Joseph Romero II or Joey. The family is currently in the stage 4, the school age, of the family life cycle. Joey was diagnosed with 5 different disorders by age 4. Venessia began noticing that Joey was going into severe depression and never smiled. She then learned of transgender and renamed Joey to Josie. The family faced ridicule and discrimination. The family recognized the needs of their child Josie and reorganized to ensure Josie was well taken care of which

This can be one of the reasons for poverty in this community. Many families who only have one income may not have enough money to live above the poverty line. We concluded that this might also affect residents who do not earn enough income to pay rent on their own leaving them to have to share their rent expenses with another family. In analyzing the different socio- demographics we found patterns within this community that relates back to issues they are facing today such as living in a food desert. As stated previously, food deserts are found in low income urban communities like South El Monte. With a high number of Latino residents living in poverty, issues of legal status further exacerbate this struggle to find healthy, affordable, and

Roughly 70% of South LA / SPA 6 are Latino and are employed in labor-intensive jobs. According to the Pew research center (2017) immigrants are mostly like to be in these areas of employment: construction, apparel manufacturing, agriculture, cooks, day labors, fast food, gardening, housekeeping and childcare services, and other areas that usually pay minimum wage. In this economy, a household making minimum usually needs both parents working two to three full-time jobs, if not their household becomes impoverished as those in SPA 6. When you take away a major and most needed resource as money, you are left with relying on supplements, such as food stamps to feed one’s household. In SPA 6, a known food desert with food insecurities, many meals

This example of a family’s interesting dynamics that come about can be seen in a show called, “The Fosters.” In this show, the Foster family lives in San Diego where Stef Foster and Lena Adams (in later seasons being Lena Adams-Foster) parent five children, four of them being foster children and one coming from a previous marriage. The children’s names are Brandon (17yrs old), who is the oldest, Mariana (16) and Jesus (16), who are twins that were adopted after Stef and Lena got together, and Callie (17) and Jude (13) who are siblings that both got adopted. Stef is the birth mother of Brandon, coming from a previous relationship with another charater named Mike.

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 greatest and most prominent strength of the family is their ability to adapt to differences in culture and expectation. Although they are having their struggles in America, they are still ultimately successful in making a living for themselves in a different world. Along with the stress, the parents are still in conjunction with one another with regards to family values and it is clear that each member deeply cares for one another. This aspect of resilience is crucial because it has positive implications as to their willingness to change as a family unit for the better. Additionally, it is clear that the family is a set of very hardworking individuals, who have hope for a better life despite all the obstacles faced, and the very definition of resilience is the ability to see have hope in situations that others (non-resilient individuals) would not. Again, this particular set of strengths is important in allowing and assisting in the family altering their problems. With hope, it will help the family work towards their goals if they truly believe that their family can change

Carlas family has had a lot of deaths in the family, but they have not lost hope and they continue to live life even through all the struggles. Carla continued to keep her head up for her grandson when her husband, son, and daughter in law had passed away. Although Carla was not Roland biological mother, she raised him as her own son. She was a single parent after the death of her husband and is a great strength. Carla and her sister also seem to have a strong relationship because they have kept in contact weekly over the phone. Another strength of the family is that they showed resilience despite all the deaths and situations that have occurred within the family. They have moved forward to be there for eachother.

In the beginning of the interview I had believed that the Hernandez family was a middle-class family who had no great monetary issues, I also believed that the family needed more persuasion to be involved in school programs since in the past Janeth Hernandez the mother to the child Jenny Hernandez shared she had never participated in her child’s school as a volunteer, and I also believed that one involvement plan fit all families. However, after completing the interview on the Hernandez family my beliefs on this specific family where greatly influenced I realized that not all families will fit the same involvement plan because every family has different day to day activities, so it is important as a teacher to communicate with not only the children but the parents too. I also learned to be understanding that although a family might look like a family ignoring their child’s academic development what really might be happening is that they can’t afford or are having difficulties completing school requirement with no help. Finally, I learned through the interview that it is important as a future teacher that

PER REPORTER: Mom works at Menge Mart. After work, she comes home for a minute and leaves the children home by themselves. When Halee was in a facility, they left the older child home alone with no phone. This was before Thanksgiving. Someone bought the child a phone card so she wouldn't be without a phone. It's unknown if they had food then. Halee goes to someone else's home to eat. They are left home all the time. They don't know when they will come back when they are gone. Mom and Zack are always going out of town. They went to Missouri two times. Mom would move back to Tennessee if it wasn't for the children being in school. They are left with no phone and they have to borrow a phone. They have no way to reach someone if something happened.

“Describing her grocery shopping routine, a poor mother from South Boston with a 3-year-old: I get my food stamps on the 5th and I try to make them last for a month, but that’s really difficult because toddlers waste a lot of food”. Poor parent’s struggle to have enough money for groceries, and some have to wait and rely on food stamps. “When poor mother’s kids refuse what she cooks, she thinks of things she could have purchased instead.” In other words poor Mother’s don’t have enough money to just buy something that is going to go to waste. Poor Mother’s worried about their kids rejecting food, because not only don’t they have money for food but buying something that is going to go to waste isn’t going to be worth spending the money.

This class project produced some disturbing results that could be very eye opening to those who believe the poverty line is accurate in determining who needs government assistance of any kind. Unfortunately the findings of the Dallas budget showed a family of four with one income that would eat a very nutritionally bland diet (not by choice) and have a very limited amount of positive social interaction. The issues begin with just finding a place to call home and continue in every aspect of this hypothetical families lives.

I am Jamal Jarad and Francisco Sanchez is my friend. Francisco has been selling furniture for me since July of 2016 till December 31st of 2016 but unfortunately there hasn’t been business here in walworth county or other county’s. Francisco Sanchez isn’t working for me anymore ever since January 1st of 2017. If you have any questions or suggestions here’s my number (773)491-7587.

Childhood is a creative non-fiction story by Nieves Sanchez describing the journey of a young girl living in Mexico. The story has a connects with the author because she also lives through similar experiences while she was a young woman in Mexico. The story takes place in a variety of locations and without a specific date. The author described the journey as memories of the young girl when she was around seven to nine years old. Although, the young girl gives one fuzzy memory of her parents.

For example, there are people who believe that single mothers choose to raise their children by themselves, are unemployed, and receive government assistance. There two ways a parent can support their children welfare or work. Welfare is a government program that provides a parent with food aid known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Medicare offers health programs. Also, childcare for working mothers and low-income housing. Being a woman as a single parent, I was not going to support my kids on the government system. I was determined to get a job and take care of my family. I taught my children that there was no free meal in life. I worked two minimum wage jobs because, I wanted my children live in a nice house, in a nice neighborhood, and they attended the best school. Today, Regina is now thirty-three, she works at Toledo Hospital as a medical assistant. Robert is twenty-four, he graduated from high school at the age of sixteen. Robert also earned a degree from the University of Toledo at the age of twenty-one. Neither has never been in any trouble with the