...learn to live in society: sociolisation primaire.On can define the family in different ways and different points of view . A family , for example, a community of people united by kinship . It has a legal personality, a name, a home and a common heritage and created among its members a duty of moral and material solidarity , intended to protect and promote their social, physical and emotional . The family can take many forms. There may be nuclear families , which are a form of family structure corresponding to a household comprising two or unmarried children and their parents, in contrast to the extended family may have several generations The parent families, which are families consisting of one parent living with her children and stepfamilies , household combining two families whose parents are either divorced or separated , and being remarried or is not living in the same household . II) Some definitions: Marriage : today , marriage can take two main forms : the civil marriage (which was doing the town hall) , and religious marriage (which is the church) often requires a prior civil marriage. The wedding is a ceremony aimed at unier a man and a woman by legal links and / or religious . PACS : the PACS ( Civil Solidarity Pact ) was passed in 1999. PACS is a contract between two persons of common sex or not wanting a life together . Matriarchy : social system in which the role of women is greater than that of man. Patriarchy : family and social organization based...
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...Family Life in the 21st Century! Family life has become more stressful – two working parents, blended families, single parent homes, adolescent challenges, child safety concerns. Gender roles in relationships have become less defined. Children don’t arrive with an instruction book! Parenting is the only job for which there is no required education or training. Couples often have to balance career goals with personal goals. Older children moving back home and intergenerational relationships profoundly affect families. Research points to creating strong relationships as an essential ingredient for happiness and longevity. Effective communication is a foundation for relationships and is challenged by our instant message, sound byte society. Family Structures The following types of families exist today, with some families naturally falling into multiple categories. For example, a single parent family who lives in a larger, extended family. While these types of families are distinct in definition, in practice the lines are less clear. Nuclear Family The nuclear family is the traditional type of family structure. This family type consists of two parents and children. The nuclear family was long held in esteem by society as being the ideal in which to raise children. Children in nuclear families receive strength and stability from the two-parent structure and generally have more opportunities due to the financial ease of two adults. According to U.S. Census data, almost...
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...collected through self reports. Understanding the family structure can have an important role in the intervention and prevention of deviant behavior in the child. More parental monitoring was associated with less delinquency in a single parent household. We examine family structure including two parent families, single mother families, single father families, and stepfamilies. This paper addresses the implications of different theories and findings designed to reduce deviance. Single Parent Home Effect on Adolescence Deviant behavior among youth has increased in the United States (Steinberg, 1987). According to the Nature and Meaning of Deviance (2008), Deviant behavior is described as actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including enacted rules and social norms. This paper will examine the social factors associated with deviant behavior among juveniles. It will explore the correlation, if any, between single parent homes and the rise in deviant behavior in juveniles. The two disciplines, Psychology and Sociology, will help evaluate the importance between the single parent homes and the effect it has on juvenile deviant behaviors. Evaluating the reasons for the rise in juvenile delinquency in our nation is complex but most alarming is the young ages of juveniles involved in deviant behavior that are now being reported....
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...When stepfamilies are formed, it is because of the decisions that the adults have made, with or without the approval of the children in the family, so the challenges of being a child dealing with change in their living situation can be an emotional experience. Adult relationships can be complicated and although most parents understand the importance of keeping their children out of their disagreements, they always end up in the middle. When a child sees their parents arguing, they can take sides, giving their loyalty to one parent rather than the other. When introducing a stepparent the children may portray a sense of disgust towards their parent’s new spouse. They do not agree with the marriage because they have already given their loyalty to the other parent. It is an awkward and unfair position to put the children in. They have the right to love both biological and step-families. Many children of divorced parents harbor a secret hope that parents will one day work out their differences. While this is usually not the case, the remarriage of one or both of their parents can serve as a reminder that their parents have moved on and will not be rekindling their relationship. A child’s reaction to this may cause them to lash out at family members, especially their stepparent, who they may see as the reason that their family will never be as it once was. Sometimes a child changes homes when their parent marries, sometimes new people move in to their home. Almost always, kids...
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...Abstract This paper will address issues that may arise when counseling blended families by focusing on the family dynamic system. Blended families or step-families are becoming more prevalent in the United States each year. The number of divorces has continued to rise in the United States, which has caused the rate of couples remarrying to increase as well. Blended families usually result from different life circumstances such, as past relationships, divorces, deaths, and separations. At times blended families are faced with many challenges, and these challenges can cause significant problems within the new relationships. Some of the problems are due to different parenting styles. Children are having to readjust to a new lifestyle and getting along with stepparents or siblings can put an obstacle into the new relationship. Family counseling provides blended families with an opportunity and a platform for voicing their feelings and learning ways to accommodate each other within the family. Keywords: Blended families, counseling, divorce, remarriage, children, separation, parenting style, step-siblings, and widowing. Blended Family Counseling Introduction Blended families are becoming accepted in today’s society, and many families are merging together as one. Gonzales (2009) defined blended family as two couples coming together into a new relationship with one or more children from a previous relationship. Customarily, the primary family structure consisted of a two-parent...
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...parents provide the child with reassurance, the child can still be controlled by the idea that they caused the breakup. In almost every situation, the child worries about what will happen to them; a fear that is very logical. There are many different ways children can react to divorce. Some will show signs of sleeplessness and depression, while others feel anxious that they will be rejected or abandoned by one or the other. Due to the absence of one of the parents, some situations cause the child to feel lonely. Continual broken promises are placed on a level far beyond its genuine importance. In every situation of divorce, a child will be affected in some way. Most of these effects will be dependent on how both parents are able to handle the situation. - Uncontrollable Bad Effects - The Loss of Friends - The Loss of Family - Birthdays and Holidays - Stepfamilies Video game violence highlights out of...
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...It would be gross injustice to categorize all children and youths as lacking in manners and morals, but the general trend would certainly suggest there has been a major decline among many of them. Family values have changed dramatically in the past few decades, producing a crop of undisciplined teenagers and children who lack morals and manners as a result of poor training. Good manners were once the norm with young people very much aware the older generation. Saying "please" and "thank you", giving up a seat on the bus and holding open doors were all considered normal mannerly behavior. Times have changed and we now live in a predominantly me-first society which is reflected in many young people. If good manners are taught at an early age, they will generally continue to be part of the personality of the young child all the way into adulthood. The lack of good manners observed in society in general is no doubt a reflection of the situation found within the home. Without parental example and training the area of manners, it is likely the children will sadly lack in displaying them. The same can be said of the lack of morals we find in many of today's youth. A large proportion of children have grown up with little or no respect for authority, for property, for family or even themselves. Living a life of immorality is considered normal behavior today and has produced a bumper crop of young people with venereal disease, unwanted pregnancies and a feeling of emptiness in their...
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...Name: SCLY 1: Families and Households Revision Notes 2011-12 By the end of this unit you should be able to * answer any question on families and households ! Key definitions: A family is usually a group of people related by marriage or blood. A household is a person living alone or a group of people living together who may or may not be related. Theories of the family From the specification: The relationship of the family to the social structure and social change * Functionalist views: the importance of the nuclear family, the universality of the family, changing functions, how the nuclear family ‘fits’ modern society. * Marxist views: the family as part of the ideological state apparatus, as an agent of social control. * Feminist views: patriarchy; liberal, radical and Marxist feminism. Consensus/Positive views of the family | Conflict/critical views of the family | * Functionalist theories: the family performs positive functions for individuals and society * New Right theories: the family is the cornerstone of society, but it is under threat | * Marxist theories: the family provides important functions for capitalism * Feminist theories: the family reinforces gender inequality and patriarchy | Functionalist theories GP Murdock | Evaluation | Murdock argues that the family is a universal institution (it exists everywhere) that performs four major functions: * Stable satisfaction of the sex drive with the same partner, preventing the...
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...Literature Review Family Structural Changes and Juvenile Delinquency To develop a well-formulated theory on family structural changes playing an impact on juvenile delinquency, it is imperative to discern what other information exists surrounding the topic. There are multiple sources that seek to determine what factors influence kids/teens to turn into delinquents, from either a stable, loving home or a place filled with toxic disasters. This study is focused on analyzing how these various factors within a family within a family impact a child's likelihood of experiencing juvenile delinquency, but more specifically how family changes are a factor. My proposed research studies the question by studying individuals, making persons my phenomena. Using the existing studies as a basis of knowledge will provide the framework for a new theory involving the significance of family structural changes. One of the major functions of the family is to protect, teach, and train children so that they become competent, productive adults and if that job is not done properly, then it can be assumed that the family has failed to do its job (Kunz, 2001b). Variable: DIVORCE We first have to look into whether juvenile delinquency is related to divorce. Cynthia Price and Jenifer Kunz created a meta-analysis, involving 72 studies where meta-analysis is the quantitative statistical analysis of several separate but similar experiments or studies in order to test the pooled data for statistical significance...
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...Family refers to two or more individuals who identify themselves as family and manifest some degree of interdependence in interactions with each other and their environment in meeting basic human needs for affection and meaning. In today’s world there is a variation of single-parent, stepfamilies or blended families, dual-career families in which both parents work, married couples without children, cohabitating couples, and gay and lesbian families are more typical of the diverse family patterns today. For this assignment I chose a blended family, this is a family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships. In this case, the father and also the step parent is thirty five years old and the mother is thirty two years old. They have an older male child who is the son of the mother from a previous marriage and is ten years old and the smallest child is a girl from this current marriage who is six years old. All four of them are white in race and Hispanic in ethnicity. In the family that...
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...Question 1 Which is TRUE about infertility? Assisted reproductive technology includes all fertility treatments in which both egg and sperm are handled. Question 2 Population statistics reflect two important trends. These are: fertility rate; mortality rate Question 3 The number of children born per 1,000 women aged 15-44 is called the: general fertility rate. Question 4 Developed nations such as the United States, Canada, or in Western Europe tend to have __________fertility rates and __________ mortality rates. low; low Question 5 Sophie just had a baby, and her government ensures that she has 16 weeks of paid maternity leave, with 3 additional years of unpaid leave if she wants it. Her husband also has 11 days of paid leave. What country does Sophie live in? France Question 6 The USDA estimates that it cost __________ in 2009 to raise one child to age 18. $286 000 Question 7 A relationship in which one woman gives birth for another person or couple, who then adopts or takes legal custody of the child, is called: surrogacy. Question 8 Several fundamental changes are occurring with the value associated with having children. Which is NOT one of these changes? People are having larger families after a 20-year decline in family size Question 9 In 1970, the average age at which women had their first child was 21; today it is __________. 25 Question 10 When Thomas was adopted as an infant all birth information about his birth parents remained sealed...
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...INTRODUCTION The Family is the basic social institution and primary group in a society. Ordinarily, the family is conceived of as composed of parents and children, with or without relatives , united by bonds of love and affection and who share common social activities. It is defined as a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood or adoption, constituting a single household, interacting and communicating with each other in their perspective social roles of Husband and wife, mother and father , son and daughter , brother and sister , and creating and maintaining a common culture. (Burgess and Locke , 1963) When everything seems to be wrong, the family should be the one who makes it right. Nevertheless, families should be intact. Bonds are strongly held together and there is no sign of separation. Unfortunately, there are instances that a family becomes incomplete or Broken. Broken Family is a family where the parents ( mother and father) of a child or children have split up and no longer share a single family relationship or live. Separately due to divorce, remarriage, death or unavoidable circumstances. It is visible that in a parent separation, the children are the ones who are affected the most. Watching parents take a home from a traditional family lifestyle to a “broken” home by getting separated is very devastating for a child's mental well-being. The objectives of this research will be to identify the effects of having broken family on the social and mental...
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...many marriages end in divorce, and surprisingly most of them end in their early stages. If divorce rates goes up, people’s level of tension and hesitation about marriage is also increasing. The society accepts divorce very easily and even suggests it as a solution to the trivial problems faced in a husband-wife relationship. Therefore marriages and family life are at risk. If divorce continues to rise in even roughly the same pattern, the traditional sense of marriage might as well become extinct. To add to the existing problem, various law firms and websites provoke divorce through various methods such as advertising the benefits of divorce or by offering customized divorce forms online. The soaring divorces are not just questioning the importance of relationships and ties but they are also creating severe after effects in the life and family of the divorcees. Laws should be reformed to make it harder to obtain a divorce because it would help prevent any emotional, financial, and psychological repercussions. Though divorce at an individual level is a liberating factor for estranged couples, the problem arises when the divorce affects the kids. The author states: “Numerous studies indicate that children of divorced families face increased risk of substance abuse and academic trouble” (Acquilano 67). Parents are risking their kid’s well being because they believe it is not working out. Children are then forced to live with one parent while the other parent gets only visitation...
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...CADV 450 19 January 2014 Stress and Coping in Relation to School Stress stimuli can be presented in almost any situation and carry on into other situations. Stress can interfere with a lot in a person’s life and come can come from and/or affect one’s health, happiness, education, the list goes on. What is important is learning how to deal with those stress factors. This is where coping strategies come in. In our online class, we spoke about coping and stress from a Child Life Specialist point of view. One of the goals of a CLS is to make a situation that is stressful easier to cope with. This is important for teachers as well. One of a teacher’s main goal is to provide the appropriate tools for students to help them learn new things. As observers, teacher should be able to recognize stress stimuli and help students cope with their stress so that it does not interfere with their schoolwork. In my paper, I will focus on and provide examples of stress displayed in school settings that ultimately affect one’s ability to focus on the curriculum and ways to cope with those stressors. Then I will reflect on what I have learned and why this topic is important to me. This topic is interesting to me because I plan to become a teacher and I believe that having the ability to cope with stressors is a powerful tool to have in life. A huge percent of children in the United States have divorced parents. For children, divorce can create confusion, anger, sadness, etc. According to the...
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...A Critique of Dating and the Single Parent Jeremy L. Hollingsworth Liberty University Abstract “Dating and the Single Parent” (Deal, 2012) is a book that underlines the need for single parents who are dating to slow down and think about what is best for the children that are in the relationship. The book is divided into three main sections. Getting Past Butterflies and Warm Fuzzies, Going Fishing, and Marital Commitment and Stepfamily Preparation. Most of the work was given instruction to learn how to and know why one should have a strong courtship. The other piece of the book is how the author writes it from a Christian worldview. As the title of the book states it is written to aid parents that are thinking about or is dating someone with children. Whatever the cause of the separation from a spouse be it a divorce or death the children have to be at the forefront of the couple mindset. In making the determination of readiness in dating, one should make time to reflect upon past dating patterns and results. This will help in deciding whether one is repeating the same pattern over again or if maturity has been occurring through the dating process. Where is God in the dating process? Is God being trusted in the process of is He being pushed aside and disregarded? How does the partner respond to the kids and how do they respond in return? These are just some of the questions that need to be considered during the dating process. Keywords: Dating, Single, Parent,...
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