The Family Of The Blackford Family Essay

The third family originated from Puerto Rico. He was born there, but his father moved the immediate family to the United States when he was an infant. He has two sisters. One lives nearby and the other sister lives in California. The grandparents, aunts and uncles reside in Puerto Rico and he visits them once a month. He speaks Spanish and English. His family is Catholic

The person I interviewed was my mom Peggy Pacheco, She was born on October 27, 1972 at St. Charles Hospital. Her Parents are Sharon Blevins (mom), and Ronald Blevins (dad), Her siblings are Julie (sister) and Bob (brother). She’s only lived in two places, Pemberville, Ohio and Bowling Green, Ohio. My mom had attended Eastwood school when she was younger. She has medium length hair, brown hair, she wears glasses, has lots of freckles and brown eyes.

This family consists of five individuals. The caregivers of the family are the mother and father who have been happily married for twenty years. MS and MS have three children together, AS, MS, and CS. AS is the oldest child who is a male, nineteen years old, and attending college in Staples, MN. The middle child is MS who is a female, seventeen years old, and a senior in high school. CS is the youngest of the family and is female, eleven years old, and attending middle school. The mother has a part-time job, while the father has a full time job. They recently sold their home out in the country and moved closer to town. The interview occurred mainly via phone because of their busy schedules with the parents being the historians of the family.

Ms. Thorpe comes from a diverse multicultural family background, her grandmother is Scottish, her grandfather is Cherokee, her mother is Scottish and Puerto Rican, and her father is a mixture of African American and Puerto Rican. Ms. Thorpe grew up in Puerto Rico, at the age of seventeen her parents got divorced after claiming they grew apart. She described Puerto Rico as the most beautiful yet heartbreaking place.

My maternal grandparents are JC Williams and Clara Goree and they were both born in 1910 and born and raised Sprotts (Marion), Alabama. My grandparents lived in segregated AL; JC ethnicity was black, southern Baptist, farmer, and Clara was combination of black and American Indian, homemaker, and farmer. Clara and JC wedded in 1926 and had their first child (Bobbie) shortly afterward. Subsequently, this union birth a total thirteen children and my mother (Mary) was number 11 of 13. The children worked well together to ensure their basic needs were met; however, once they became of age, the children all left to start their own careers and families.

I had the opportunity to interview a family very close to me whom I have been blessed to know since I was three years old. The mother Heidi, who is 59, remarried at the age of 31 to Paul, who is 57, and they have been married for 28 years now. Heidi had her first son Markie, who is now 38, with her previous husband who is no longer in the picture. Paul and Heidi have a son named Travis who is 26 and a daughter named Tina who is 24. Paul used to work as a carpenter but retired when he was 52. He then began working at a grocery store and eventually retired from there as well. Heidi also worked at a grocery and just recently retired. Paul loved what he did as a carpenter and still continues to build things for the family such as cabinets and furniture.

Although, Nixon's “War on Drugs” affected Black marriage the rate in which families were staying together was already declining. More families were getting divorced, while some were never marrying. More people were having children out of wedlock which caused stress to the families making them even more divided. Marriage trends for families in general began to decline after the 1960s. The African American family began to spiral in the 1970’s continuing into the 1980’s. What was the reason for this decline? During this time, new jobs were emerging, there were men who were returning home from the war. Families were trying to establish themselves more, however not as a unit any longer, but as their individual selves. In comparison to the 1950s

The second parents that I interviewed was Terry and Ross Kunkel. Even though they were both present, Terry answered the majority of the questions. The interview was done at their house in Bluffs. Terry and Ross are both retired; even though Terry has gone back to working part time for the village. They have two kids; Linsey and Harley. Linsey is I’m assuming in her upper 20’s and has her own family with two kids, and I just learned, she is also expecting twins in October. Harley graduated in my class and just turned 21 a few months ago.

Wendy Lankford was raised within a “traditional” family and grew up alongside her mother, father, and younger brother in my home state of Maryland. Today, she is married to Shane Lankford and together they care for three adopted sons; ages 22, 7, and 4. Wendy is a stay at home mom who is also actively engaged in her church community and with several nonprofit service groups. Both she and her husband have dedicated themselves to raising awareness and working on behalf of orphans, those with special needs, and those living in poverty.

The Brice family consisted of a family unit of five. The father Davie a lawyer, the mother Caroline, their teenage daughter Claudia, the younger daughter Laura and younger son Don.

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.

I interviewed John and Cindy about their marriage and the challenges they’ve faced together as a married couple. I am encouraged by their relationship and have decided to use their relationship as a model for my second interview. John and Cindy have been married for almost 5 years. In addition to this union, there is McKenna, Cindy’s son. They are a blended family, of course, and are part of the more modern structure of families in our society.

Joanna is from an upper-class white family in San Francisco; her dad Matt Drayton is a successful newspaper publisher, where John is from a middle class black family scraping to get him through school. John made a name for himself as a Doctor, and became very successful helping others, but the two families are from

I have grown up in an American, Caucasian, middle-class family of five. My parents have been married for 29 years and have two daughters and a son. My sister is 27, my brother is 25, and I am 20. My family has had many great experiences, but has also faced various challenges. Throughout our different experiences, our family dynamic has developed.

Black family systems are African in nature and American in nurture. “Africanity” is being in tune with an African worldview, therefore the role that Africanity plays in black families determines the unique form black families take. Africanity is at the root of black families. The operation of the black family is directly linked to African culture through an African attitude, kinship networks, and childbearing.