The Importance Of My Family

Your life is changed every day and there are many points to your life. One point of my life is that family is the most important thing. Family is an important factor of everyone’s life, it’s who you are and who you have become today.

As part of my heritage and culture I know that I will always have a place to come home to, my mom will always be waiting with open arms for my return, not matter if a have a family of my own. My family is extremely crucial, although most of my family live in Colombia my brother and my mom are essential to who I am. For example, my older brother moved out recently yet we still have Saturday dinners together. Being Hispanic means being a member of a community, as I stated before, the only immediate family I have in the Unites State is my brother and my mom nevertheless my mom’s friends are my “aunts” and my close Hispanic friends are my siblings.

Growing up, English speaking, oldest child from California, my definition of family has changed a lot over the years, but no matter the changes my family has always had a strong impact on my life. When I was growing up, I was always around family. Christmas Eve was always spent with my mom’s

My family are like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions, at different paces but our roots will always run deep. Family will always come first to me, above all else; coming from a home with no father, the only father figure i had was my grandfather, to me family is so important because it is who we come from. Family

Without family I would not be who I am today. My mother was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and my father was born in Les Cayes, Haiti. My parents came to the United States in the late 1970s, settled in New York and had five daughters. I often looked up to my parents and two older siblings for advice and guidance. The primary language my family spoke was creole. My father was very strict, and my mom did the majority of the cooking and the cleaning until my sisters and I got old enough to help out. School and religion has always been the main focus in my household. My family spent the majority of our free time participating in church functions and also attending church worship service every Saturday.

My family was and is still very important in my life. Sometimes I would become melancholy when I think about how far apart I am from them. On the other hand, I do become enlightened when I think about how both sides of my families are close when I visit them in Missouri. As a child, never really had a birthday party or received a lot of presents, but when my family comes during my birthday, I feel like I’m receiving hundreds of presents. My family makes me feel safe and secure when I’m feeling down.

I’m 17, I’m 5’7, I’m productive with my time, I typed this essay and my family has a tremendous role in my life. With the guidance of family, interests, and the places I’ve been, I have determined the future I want to pursue.

To being with, my family is one of the most important things in my life. It isn’t too vast or too tiny. I live with my mom, Carmen, and my two brothers, Ranger and Rances. Most of my family, though lives in Dominican Republic. My mom also has one sister here in Perth Amboy, my aunt, Sylvia, and she has three kids. My family

In order to understand how family took over such a large role in my life you need to know some of the backstory. Growing up, my impression was that my family was the same as every other family. I never paid attention to the families of my friends nor compared them to my own in the detail that I do today. The issue that would transform me into who I am today involved my grandparents.

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 ABCX model is conceptual model that demonstrates how a family handles a stressful event in their lives. (Hanson, 2013, p. 54) The stressor event in this model is referred to as factor A. The family’s resources

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.

Please apply the ABC-X model to a major stressor or crisis your family has encountered.

Ever since I was born into this world I knew that God placed me with the perfect family. My parents and my older brother mean the world to me. We were all so close and comfortable with one another and that’s how a true and understanding family is supposed to be. It was the summer of my sophomore year and I was so excited to be able to spend it with the people I loved most. As the summer went on I began to realize that my parents were hardly speaking to one another. My brother and I just assumed that they had gotten into a fight and they were just taking time apart. A few weeks on and they still weren't communicating with one another. At this point I realized that something was wrong. The family that I once loved and looked forward to seeing was growing apart. They never kissed, or hugged or even simply talked to one another. It was near the end of summer when my mom told me news that would change my life forever. She sat me down and told me that she was filing for an immediate divorce. I was so devastated and furious at both of them. I couldn't understand why they let their relationship get to this point. As weeks went on I noticed that my mom was always on the phone, and whenever I would ask who it was she would simply ignore me.I soon began to realize that the reason why my mom was becoming so distant is because she was having an affair. I felt like my world was turned upside but this was only the beginning of the struggle I've been facing with my parents.

Both of my parents are divorced and remarried. So my family is made up of multiple different families. Not only are my parents divorced, but also a few of my grandparents are divorced. My mother is married to my stepfather, Tony. My father is married to my stepmother, Vicki. My grandparents on my mother’s side are divorced and remarried. My grandparents on Tony’s side are divorced. That makes a grand total of eight families. My mother and father do not really speak to each other now that my brother and I are grown. However, some of my extended family from each side do still hang out and