What Were Your Parent's Marital Status

First, I would start off with a question about her choice in her occupation. It interests me how people get into certain types of jobs. Also, it makes me wonder if she has ever experienced a horrific event herself that persuaded her into that line of work. Next, I would ask her if she remembered meeting Martha. I would want to know if a light bulb in her head turned on as she heard about the lost girls’ story. Maybe she may have even kept in touch with Martha to see if she was fitting into the American Lifestyle. Finally, I would end with a hard hitting question. I would simply ask her what she would do if she was in Martha’s shoes. Now the question may seem simple but the thought process for answering it is difficult. The social worker would have to understand the main and terror she went through. It is extremely hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes, especially when that person went through something unimaginable. In conclusion, out of all the characters in the story “Lost Boy, Lost Girl” I would want to interview the social worker. I feel like getting to know her point of view as someone who was off on the sidelines in during the war would be very

What important changes in family patterns do you see today? Today I see family patterns change in many perspectives ways. Families are more independent. They form their own opinions in their decision making. Do you see positive changes, negative changes, or both? I would have to say that I see both positive and negative changes in families. The positive that I see is that many husbands are more involved with their children and even some are now stay home dads taking care of the children while women go to work, the negative that I see is that there are many people filing for divorce and children being raised by single parents. What do they mean for families, in your opinion? My opinion is that most people are

I interviewed my grandmother. Her name is Sandra Sue Wardlaw. But I call her Mamaw. Mamaw was born in Dayton Ohio on July 25, 1938. She still lives in Dayton, but Brooklynn Dayton. Mamaws parents names are Roy and Ruth Strader. Roy is her dad and Ruth is her mom. Mamaw also has three sisters and one brother. Their names are Marcia, Cheryl, Lynn, and Jerry Strader. By now all of her sisters have married last names. Mamaw has lived all over Dayton Ohio. She attended Jefferson Township School System when she was in school. Mamaw is short and has grey hair. Sometimes she dies her hair blonde. She needs glasses to read and is very sassy.

The ‘new family’ of the 1970s grew up as children with no father figure, did not remember wartime hardships and saw family life depicted through American movies. Civil law changed the system to nuclear family through the exposure of Western influence that was seen as the ideal for the Japanese family. The concept of nuclear family has influenced the increase in “singles, martial couples and single-parent units” which by Nonoyama (2000) sees this as a disorganization of the framework of nuclear structure. Imamura (1990) discusses that love marriages were encouraged with the influence of the western culture, where young people saw to reconsider the ways of courtship before marriage, which decreased numbers of traditional arranged marriages. This

Her first college was even a Baptist College even though she stated that didn’t really matter to her. She would always turn to her religion during tough times when she was feeling down about killings happening around her and when she was afraid of the night riders is when she would start praying. When she was consistently going to Sunday church she would study hard but I don’t think the influenced her the most. I think she studied hard because that’s what she knew how to do and that’s what came easy for her. It seems to me that she was more forced to join the church and it was the pressure from her mother that made her join but it seems like it didn’t have that much of an effect on her life. It was just a part of her life for so long but it didn’t influence her the most. I think her religion was important in her development and in the way she thinks but it wasn’t the greatest influence on her

I was raised mostly by mom after my father wasn’t in place once I was 10. I learned, both my paternal great-grandparents are deceased bon in the years 1909 and 1911. I do however remember a slight glimpse my father’s mother (my grandmother). She would always have homemade chocolate chip cookies for me every time I come visit. She passed away when I was 12. My father dad (my grandfather), I don’t remember much about him. I only remember that he enjoyed fishing, but never would invite me on his trips because he would say “It’s too dangerous out on the water kiddo”. Unfortunately, he too was diagnosed with cancer and passed when I was

xxxv. Husbands and fathers provided economic support and protection and represented the families to the outside world

For this assignment, I interviewed my wonderful mother Joan. I asked her for her opinion on the topics of marriage, sibling relationships, and grandparent relationships. She provided insightful answers that revealed a great deal about her values.

I started with the basic questions like how she grew up and other questions some of the answers were, she grew up in Dalton Georgia with both her parents and one sister and one brother. Dalton was primarily a “white” city when she was growing up until her first encounter with someone from another race. She was in Dug Gap Elementary when she first saw a Spanish-speaking student come into her class she was in her fifth grade class. She could see that this was just the beginning of having others from around the world be in her town. Her family was considered an upper middle class living in an urban area when she was growing up. She had been raised in a church and followed that religion throughout her life growing up living with her parents. Religion

Church was boring and all the kids just wanted to go. My Mom, Blish, was nine at the time and filled with energy. All she wanted to do was go play in the perfect Atchison Spring weather. She was with her friend Sarah at church, and Sarah also wanted to play outside.

On March 4th, 2005 I sat in Mrs. Musser’s first grade class. I talked with my friend Olivia Thacker, like I did everyday. We talked about boys; how smelly they were and how we would never have boyfriends. We talked about our sisters who were also friends, and we talked about our parents. However, that year we mostly talked about my mother. Around 2:45, my sister, Lauren and I, would walk to the farthest end of the school. That end of the school was filled with the bigger kids and I was always scared to walk on that side. My sister who was in second grade at the time, always walked with me, so I had some protection. Anyways, we walked out the doors to the student car-rider pick up line. My grandmother on my father's side always picked us up

I’d say that we were products of a single parent household, but it’d be years into my adolescence before I’d know what that meant. I belonged to the Black church though somewhat different than my friends’. I grew up in Brooklyn in a neighborhood where the smell of curried goat masked the wafting vapors of overflowing NYC drainage. I was a typical inner city kid that was full of faith and boundless optimism. . My faith was a shield. Very rarely did I get into trouble, but when I found it I believed that my god would protect me

When she was filling out the questions, she wanted me to go over them with her. I feel as if she may have liked to use these as points she wanted to talk about. There is a possibility that she did not know how to approach the topic without the questions being available to use as a starting point. She told me more about her sister and how she would physically hurt her

I also grew up in a joint family, so I know exactly how it feels when people look up to you for medical advice. I'm actually glad that I have this positive influence in my families health; even though at times it's a lot of pressure.

“Why did you and dad separate? Why is he not living here anymore?” When she finally gave me the answer it was not the answers to the questions I asked all the tim. It was the answer to a question that I had never asked. She went into the story of how my dad told her that he was divorcing her.