The Family Environment Can Have A Positive Or Negative

Earlier menarche is brought on by obesity whereas amenorrhea is common in women with a low BMI. Other factors that lead to early menstruation include: stressful family circumstances, increased family conflict, divorce, longer durations of the absence of a father in the home or the presence of a male who is not the father. Sexual abuse can also influence early menarche. In Mexico, the majority of girls begin to menstruate at approximately 12 years of age. Over the years this age has fluctuated from

society or the family, many parents choose to adopt a child from another race. Ethnic adoption can be defined as an action that some family adopt a child from another racial group. According to Simpson and Yinger, (2013) poor parents can not raise their children and it is the original reason to result in the ethnic adoption. Indeed there are many children being born under underprivileged circumstances which mean that their parents can’t raise them. In that condition, these children have to be put into

and have different experiences as they progress in life. Some can have more negative, and some can have more positive influences around them in their sociocultural environments. When we think of a family, we usually think of it consisting of the children, two parents, usually a male and a female, who are married. This is changing though in the United States. Different types of families are starting to emerge now. For example grandparent families, single parent families, and divorced families are

Who said I can 't love my step-family? Society has given blended families or (step-family) a negative connotation, they do not believe step-parents and children can have quality relationships. Relationships are important within the family and play a pivotal role in helping children grow physically, mentally, and cognitively, which is crucial for development (Kostelnik, Whiren, Soderman, Gregory, 2009, p.184). Urie Bronfenbrenner states, a family consists of systems that interacts with one another

Bronfenbrenner (1994), discusses how a person's environment plays a heavy role in socialization. Children raised in families with different economic resources likely respond differently to the social environment in which they are immersed. Children who grow up in wealthy environments can afford services they need versus poverty level families have very little financial support. Children who grow up in a wealthy family are most likely to have healthy hygiene because they afford the materials

technology has changed society in both positive and negative ways. People all over the world use and benefit from modern technology. Technology has simplified the access to many tools people need in education, medicine, communication, transportation, etc. However, using it too often has its drawbacks as well. In most cases, the time of finishing projects is cut by more than half with the help of technology. Many people do not realize that technology has its negative affects society as well, and its rapid

raised by a family in the rural west, while Lydia went to a family in the urban south. These are two very different situations filled with different socioeconomical environments (Feldman 2010). The differences in the girls’ social environment could have had huge influence on their cognitive development (Feldman 2010). We need to analyze what Erickson’s psychosocial theory says about the way our social interactions with other people can test and outline our development (Feldman 2010). We can also take

or form. Whether in a positive or negative way, influence is something that surrounds us, our children and family and may determine the way we develop. We are all prone to influences in our environment. Although there are many factors that influence us, one specific example are the sociocultural factors we are surrounded by in our everyday lives. This paper will be discussing the strengths and weaknesses in the sociocultural environment that influence both children and families. Growing up in dangerous

on substance abuse. Having family members and friends struggling with substance abuse was one of the main reasons for me to go into counseling. In addition to, I wanted to eliminate the stigma that counseling has in the minority community, specifically the Black community. In the Black community, a lot of individuals refuse to go because they view counseling only for “crazy” people, which is ignorant and not the case at all. Counseling is for everyone, whether you have a mental illness or just having

Possessing a functional or dysfunctional family is of much importance to a healthy development, helping children through peer pressure, acceptance, and the anxiety of belonging. Yet how important is the environment that a child is raised on, this being shared or non-shared? How difficult or easy can peer pressure be? Will peer pressure help or deter a child from being functional. How much do these factors affect development from childhood to adolescence? This paper will explain the different stages