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     The African-American family is defined as networks of households related by blood, marriage, or function that provide basic instrumental and expressive functions of the family to the members of those networks (Hill, 1999). It is one of the strongest institutions throughout history, and still today. Family strengths are considered to be cultural assets that are transmitted through socialization from generation to generation and not merely adaptations or coping responses to contemporary racial or economic oppression (McDaniel 1994; Hill 1999). This definition is contrary to the belief that the Black family is an adaptation to harsh conditions, instead of an ongoing establishment. Hill (1999) discusses

The family I grew up in has been by far the largest influence on how I think, and they have taught me many great things and have been amazing parents, however in this essay I will focus on how my views have differed from theirs, and how I have learned to think differently. My mother is a small town in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma, and my father is from San Antonio, Texas. I have two sisters, one who is eight years old than myself, the other is two and a half years younger. I was born part of the middle class, white, and I 'm a male. Born in Dallas, Texas I 've spent the vast majority of my life in Frisco, Texas. The entirety of my childhood was spent growing up in a Southern Baptist Christian home. From a young age I was taught in church, which I attended for preschool, that an “acceptable” family is a mother and a father with children. This traditional family model was the setting in which I was raised, so I didn 't realize for a long time that

This paper is a critical analysis of two academic papers: McKeown, J., Ryan, T., Ingleton, C., and Clarke, A., 2015, ‘You have to be mindful of whose story it is ': The challenges of undertaking life story work with people with dementia and their families. Dementia, (Qualitative) and Milne, A., Guss, R., and Russ, A., 2014, Psycho-educational support for relatives of people with a recent diagnosis of mild to moderate dementia: An evaluation of a ‘Course for Carers '. Dementia. (Quantitative) These papers have been selected as they embrace contrasting research strategies on Dementia- qualitative and quantitative. The main aim of this analysis is to underline the positive/negative facts in the academic papers in terms of the

The Moore family is a family that is made up of three generations, starting with the grandparents, parents, along with the children. The Moore family also consist of multiple racial groups, such as African American and Caucasian that causes divided within the family because of the cultural differences within each group. The Moore family is made up of Jessica, Caucasian mother, Ed, African American father, Derrick, adopted African American son, Terrence, Jessica’s biological biracial son, and Debbie, Ed’s biological biracial daughter. With the listing of the both husband and wife along with the children, it is clear that this family has encounter a few life transitions, trajectories, cohorts, turning points, and life events. Understanding life course perspective will assist with understanding the family dynamics that are displayed within the Moore family. Life transitions, trajectories, cohorts, turning points, life events, along with other terms will be defined and discussed to fully examine the Moore’s family behavior and life events that guided their family’s development. With all of the issues that the Moore family has encountered both Jessica’s and Ed’s marital problems may be seen as the core of their family’s dysfunction, therefore, this will be explained under the life course perspective.

Genograms are used to graphically represent a family tree and display detailed data on relationships among the individuals included in the family tree. In essence, families are complex systems that interact with kin groups in specific ways, and a genogram helps to show a diagram of a family tree, but also maps out interactions, relationships, traits, and characteristics that may otherwise not be noticed. The purpose of a genogram is to identify and understand patterns in family history which may influence an individual’s personal behavior and traits. Family Systems Theory, presented by Dr. Murray Bowen, suggests that an individual cannot be understood in isolation from their family members. According to Dr. Bowen, the family is an emotional

In this essay I will be exploring the concepts of ideology and symbolic and cultural capital in regards to the ABC television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition with Ty Pennington. The show is an American reality television series providing home makeovers for less fortunate families and community schools. The show is hosted by former model, carpenter and veteran television personality Ty Pennington who is pleasing to the ear and eye. Each episode features a family that has faced some sort of recent or ongoing hardship such as a natural disaster or a family member with a life-threatening illness, in which the family is in need of new hope. The show 's producers coordinate with a local construction contractor, which then

In the article “What is a Family?” the author, Pauline Irit Erera discusses how families come in various forms through social, economic and cultural conditions. There has been an increase in diversity families within the 1960s. Babies were being put for adoption due to being a different race or ethnicity from their adoptive parents. Many women were put in jail because they were using drugs and didn’t have the ability to take care of their children due to the parents being infected with HIV. Children were being taken out of their homes and placed into foster homes. Grandmothers were willing to take care of their grandchildren with full responsibilities. Some women were giving birth and living alone as a single parent and offered greater satisfaction not being married.

Since I am the index person, this genogram focuses on the “Zupka” family. I am a fifty year old middleclass gay man who lives with his long term partner of seven years, so my contemporary family is my partner Dale and our two cats Necropolis and Pandemonium. Dale has minimal contact with his family and I have no contact with my surviving relatives. I have not met any of Dale’s family nor has he met any of my family. Dale’s family is accepting of his

With every relative tolerating the limits of their part, others are not free the capacity to venture outside of their border and develop and develop into another part. Remaining inside one 's path adds to a positive family working, yet it can likewise prompt to the defective arrangement of correspondence that represses develop and brings about stagnation. A therapist could utilize a visual guide that may assist the relatives with connecting dots that might not unite before (McGoldrick, Preto, and Carter, 2016). Genograms can help restorative experts evaluate their self-improvement, family connections and stick point connections that are unfortunate and immature. Genograms can likewise give data on family restorative conditions and ailments and pinpoint maladies that keep running in families. Nichols, (2017) states that genograms can be restorative all by itself. Utilizing a family genogram in a clinical setting can fill in as an impetus for the further examination concerning a man 's underlying foundations, and also open up lines of correspondence among relatives (Milewski-Hertlein, 2001). A family genogram can permit a man to all the more plainly locate their particular character through observing the historical backdrop of those before (Khait, 2000). Picking up a superior comprehension of one 's character can take into consideration more noteworthy sentiments of having

I was never familiar with the strong sense of connectivity that comes packaged with family. I was fortunate to have a family and to be raised by one that loved me, but I didn't have a powerful relationship with many of its members outside of my household. This made it difficult for me to react when my

Familial influences shape who we are and how we value life. The values, beliefs, and opinions that we adopt are introduced by our parents, siblings, and friends. In the average household today, there is a lack of gathering or joining to converse, dine, or entertain. Most time at home is spent on various tasks by family members and are completely isolated and silenced. Boers (2012) noted that the daily realities of most contribute to declining happiness and growing depression.

In this paper I analyze five different people who come from very similar or different backgrounds to discuss and see the trend in how my respondents beliefs correlate with each other and differ from one another. I will be analyzing their attitude towards the definition of family, the length of a relationship and definition of family, childhood outcomes and single parents, and their comfort with gay men and lesbians. These topics are all very controversial and although some of the people interviewed in this study may come from similar backgrounds their beliefs are scattered and some very different. Throughout this interview process I interviewed my eighty five year old grandmother who raised two of the other interviewees (60 year old daughter Aunt Penny and 57 year old son Uncle Eric). Although these three peoples backgrounds are very similar and one of the interviewees raised the two of the others their beliefs don’t always parallel with each other. To get a more diverse group of results I interviewed my fifty-four year old mother who was not raised by my grandmother and my fifty three year old Aunt Debby who married my fifty seven year old Uncle Eric. The importance of this MYPEEPS is to show that although people may have been raised by the same person, share a similar age, or grew up in same area everyone’s definition of family is different along with everyone’s beliefs. After interviewing and analyzing the members of my family I chose to work with I realized the

Family: a word that everyone says so often, but not everyone knows the real meaning of it; is genetics the true meaning or is it something else? In today’s modern society, family is known as a group of people who are genetically related. Not favoring those who show affection and care towards each other but are not naturally related; while still signifying as“family”. Furthermore, family is not what society perceives; if anything anything artificial families should have the same importance nevertheless even greater importance. Past experiences, mental health and wellness improvement, nourishing relationships, and overall love and care all signify the importance of such individuals. With artificial families tolerating substantial pain and sorrow; conclusively having a caring, loving relationship. Why would natural families be more significant? Fundamentally indicating that families who are not necessarily related by DNA should have tremendously greater importance due to the experiences and relationships the individual may have endured and established to convey such actions.

In a world where society is mostly driven by our faults, family can be a relative term that brings it all back down to earth. Since societies can be extremely divided at times, it is important to have a back bone and a community that understand your own values, customs, and practices. It has been said that “minority group” families, which in Canada or the United States, could be considered anyone who isn’t Caucasian, are less stable in form and function than families who are a part of the general societal “majority”. Throughout this essay, I would like to discuss how untrue this statement is. From racial and cultural differences, to relying on each other and to growing as a unit, it is evident that minorities can have an even stronger

The history of my family has always been that of a mystery—you could ask all the right questions and still never get any answers. As I grew up I began to realize why I didn’t know my grandparents on my father’s side, or why I never got to meet all my aunts, uncles and cousins as well. My parents grew up with parents who lived their lives through segregation and extreme racism—and yet my mother and father fell in love, an olive skinned Italian and a dark-skinned African American. My father was the youngest of seven siblings (three brothers, and three sisters) and my mother was the middle child (she had an older sister and a younger brother who died at birth). Neither, my mother’s family or my father’s family would accept their relationship,