The Importance Of Family In A Family

I believe there’s a lot of things important in our lives, but I would like to discuss only three. Change is always happening but we adapt to it to keep living on. One thing I really believe is important is my family. That’s just one thing I believe you may think that money is important we all have different opinions. We all think somethings important but it might not be important to others. So I’m going to tell you what I think appropriate importance is to me.

As the eldest of three kids, I am who I am because of my younger sister and brother. Coming from an immigrant family, my parents worked full time at their restaurant. They had to care for the customers, the finances, kitchen supplies, and food; money was their priority because that money was for me and my siblings. From the first day I started kindergarten, I was extremely independent. Everyday after I got off the school bus at approximately 2:45 PM, I walk home and eat a bowl of cereal. I studied completed my homework, and on the occasional times my dad was home, I asked him to correct my answers. All that changed two years later when my younger sister started her kindergarten year.

What is a family? To me the word family has so many meanings, but to me it’s a group of people who will always be in your life no matter what. Having a family means that you have people that will never leave you hanging. A family is a pack, a bond. My definition comes from seeing how my family operates and no matter what, they always show love to one another. My family is Guyanese, meaning they came from the Caribbean island Guyana. Our culture revolves music, food and being very social. This involves a lot of parties and family gatherings, allowing us to always see each other and keep in touch. But, how did my family get here? What was their life journey? And how did that affect me?

The idea of “family” holds various meanings for everyone depending on their rituals, symbols, ideology, and situatedness in time, place, and culture. A biologist may define family as a group involving all descendants of a common ancestor. A criminologist may define family as a group of people united in criminal activity. A sociologist may define family as a fundamental social group in society consistent of one or two parents and the children they raise. Historically, people have considered a nuclear familial structure as desirable and most successful. Over time, sociologists have set out to analyze the social construct of family, and have come to understand that single-parent, homosexual, egalitarian, and extended families can be as highly

The definition or meaning of the word family seems to differ from person to person depending on a person’s cultural values, experiences, and upbringings. A person’s significance of the word family impacts its meaning from an individual perspective. But collectively, the meaning of the word family is a psychological position, role, and relationship between two or more people. For some people, there are a set of expectations, commitments, and loyalties associated with the position or relationship. But for me, the definition of family, are those individuals related to me through my parents. Along with friends that have influenced my life in the past and continue to do so toward the future. I consider many of my friends from high school, college, and the military as part of my extended family. But I also believe that family members should hold a certain level of affection or love for each other. Moreover, the meaning of the term has evolved from being a genetic relationship to a mindset of many roles.

Over the last 50 years, the meaning of family has changed and people of today’s world struggle to define family. Henslin et al (2014), defines family as ‘two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage or adoption’ (p. 428). Due to the changes, this has also had an impact on family dynamics, which is now seen as complex. Family Dynamics has been defined as ‘the patterns of relating, or interactions, between family members’ (Psychologytoday.com, healthychildren.org 2017). These concepts are everlasting; therefore, they develop as society does. Family dynamics are ever changing by improving or disadvantaging today’s community. The family has changed in multiple ways from 50 years ago such as the roles of members of the family and the structure of families. The difference between families then and now is more prominent in the modern Australian society.

Family is the foundation of society. A society builds upon the traits of the families that it consists of; society will not be able to function without its main components. Due to the long and perilous slave trade era, innumerable family ties were broken. During the era of slavery, children were sold to white landowners as laborers and domestic servants, husbands and wives were sold to different owners; families were torn apart. Hence why after this era, one of the priorities of the freed people are reuniting their families. Some journeyed thousands of miles to find their loved ones. Some succeeded, yet some failed; and some found that their partners had new families. Consequently, many previously enslaved children were orphaned and lost during this period. Many had no or limited means of contacting their children because they were sold from one owner to another. Hence, the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau in March 1865 to help the African Americans transition from slavery to freedom was timely and desperately needed.

When i was younger i always believed that i would have the ideal family. Unfortunately that changed the moment when my mom and and dad got a divorce. At that time i was 10 years old, i didn't really understand what was going on but i knew it wasn't good. The reason they were getting a divorce was because my mom found out that my dad was having an affair.

The family is the closest thing in your heart. The family is people that support you in every way, try to make you a better person. Family shows their love for you in a different way than what relatives may show you. They are the only people that will never leave you even if you do a mistake, they also have a big heart that forgives you for the mistakes that you make. These amazing people include mums and dads.

The connection of various individual by marriage, blood, etc are considered as family relationships. Moreover, these connections are considered to be the most important building block for the comprehensive development of individuals in our society. Family relationships, whether they may be harmonious or disruptive, serves as an important driving force for all individuals interactions in the outside world. While, these relationships may either be destructive or harmonious, they promote the transmission of good behaviours, cultural influences and other specific ways of life from the older to the younger members of the family unit. Harmonious relationships are more pleasing and consistently allows members of the family to feel more comfortable. Also, a strong bond is formed among the family members. On the other hand, destructive family relationships builds and maintain tension between the individuals, which ultimately prevents the proper transfer of good values and attitudes to the members. This type of relationship can be directly attributed to the future problems faced by individuals nurtured by the a disruptive family. In “Two Kind” by Amy Tan and “Story of the Hour” by Kate Chopin, family relationships plays an important role in the outcome of an individual in both positive and negative manner.

What is a family? What parts make up a family? These two questions are questions that millions of adults and children ask themselves regularly. When people think about a family in their head they think of a nuclear family. Where you have a Mom, Dad, and a few kids running around a home in the middle of a suburban wasteland. That is the nuclear family that I feel most modern families strive to be like. But factors can change within a family and still be a family. I do not believe that a family is strictly based off what people see from the front porch looking in. A family is about the everlasting bond that is formed between a group of people whether they are related by blood or by other means. A family is a group of people who stick together during hard times and good times, they laugh together and they cry together. They eat meals together, party together, are weaved together in life. They are like a strip of palm leaves, and when you weave a bunch of them together it makes a basket, that is a family. The people that someone can call at two in the morning on a Wednesday just because they can’t sleep. The ones who would sacrifice anything to help them. The bond can never be broken because the word “family” holds them together like glue to wallpaper.

Every day in America individuals are sentenced either at a state, local, or federal level. The U.S. Department of Justice stated “in 2014 an estimated 6,851,000 persons were under the supervision of U.S. correctional system” (Kaeble, Glae and Minton). With this staggering number, America has become the country that incarcerates more of their people than any other country in the world. Due to these extreme circumstances, the correctional system affects children by at staggering rates in our country. Although not every prisoner has children, one can assume that half of the nation’s prisoners have at least one child. This simple deduction would leave 3,425,000 with an incarcerated parent. During childhood, the impact a parent has on a child’s emotional and mental shapes their daily lives. When a child faces life with an incarcerated parent, they face separation for a period of months to years. Given the amount of children affected by the correctional system in our country, maintaining parental bonds should be a priority.

The family is a unit which in itself serves a different purpose in society, although the unit actually stays the same its functions vary depending on which sociological theory it is being perceived from.

In today’s society, every person in every family have a different role to act on. For some families, the roles are equally shared. Every decision they make, they would talk and plan it through with one another. The more traditional family, the male would be in charge of everything since they are consider the “dominant” one. The male would be the one making the family decision and taking care of the family, while the female would be responsible for the little things such as being the typical role of a wife. In my family, we used to be the traditional roles. Where my dad would take care of all the financial needs, while my mom would be in charge of all the cooking and cleaning. I started to noticed this when I was ten years old. Back then,

We all have grandparents, but mine are an especially are a big part of my family. Our grandparents do not live close to us, so it’s great when we get to see them. It's especially tough since our family is so far apart. Family is the most important thing to our family. This time was an especially important to our family for a number of reasons.