...CAMPUS) CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AFFECTING THE INSTITUTION OF FAMILY AND THEIR SOLUTIONS STUDENT NAME & ID: JOSIAH O. SANDE: BBAM/NKR/2004/15 COURSE TITLE: CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW COURSE CODE: UCC101 LECTURER: DAVID KANYONI DATE: 13TH NOVEMBER, 2014 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AFFECTING THE INSTITUITION OF FAMILY AND THEIR SOLUTIONS Abstract Since the discovery of oil, development of trade, quest for education, technological advancement, and globalization, the human life has undergone changes. These changes begin at the nuclear family. Modernization has significantly influenced family structure as expressed socio-culturally, socio-biologically and socio economically. All these change factors are discussed herein highlighting their impact on the family structure today. This paper presents the shift from the traditional family towards the modern family where the size of a family is critical, women are empowered, humanity is becoming more independent in choice, high mobility, economic security is key, medical technology is defining life and media influence on social life is greater. In general the issues affecting the family today have been prescribed by modernization. 1.0 Introduction The traditional family is the basis of life within the society where family existence in relation to high mortality and fertility determines generations to come and explains the origin of lineages. In olden days, the society depended on the nuclei unit...
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...teaching values? While acknowledging the role of parents as natural caretakers and guardians, an evolving American society has made the vital task of mentoring children increasingly difficult. There has been an apparent decrease in character and moral reasoning among today's youth. In light of this dilemma, the state government should introduce moral and character building content into the education code and standards as a beneficial alternative to the guidance provided by parents and guardians. Tay and Yildirim (2009) assert that schools have two important goals in the effort to develop morality within educational parameters: To teach the current values in the society and to cultivate positive, beneficial habits through this education. In addition, schools create opportunities for students to discuss these values and to help develop their own. The proposition states that a set of values must be prescribed by the state or federal government and taught in schools. Before determining whether a set of values formulated by government can have a positive impact in school as opposed to those instilled at home by the family, understanding the general framework of values is essential. According to Family Values International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family (2003), “Values are a society’s general ideas about what is perceived as good and desirable for a society. For example, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are values that people in the United States hold dear” (p. 1)....
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...towards living comfortably. In today’s society, people are more oriented towards living a more comfortable lifestyle than ever before. Since a child requires the proper attention and affection for a healthy development, a family’s living circumstances in North America has become substantially and increasingly more comfortable, at least for the wealthy class. This has caused the transition from childhood to adulthood to become an extended period of adolescence. Individuals have been remaining emotionally and financially dependent on their parents up until their late twenties, and some even longer. Although John Rosemond had said, “the primary purpose of raising a child is to help that child get out of your life and into a life of its own,” it is proven that wealthier parents may create an easier living situation, involving less work for a for a young adult, which causes them to choose to stay living at home for a longer time period. When considering the reasons why an adult would return home after already leaving, or make the decision not to leave in the first place, it is important to recognize factors that have changed throughout history and time. In the past, a functionalist would argue that separation of youth from parents was a practical solution due to high rates of infant mortality and childhood illness; this led to nearly half of the population of children to die before the age of twenty. It was a necessity for parents to have many children, in order to ensure they would...
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...Divorce of Parents Harm Their Children? Each year the American society deals with divorce. Divorce introduces a massive change into children and adults life no matter what the age is. Divorce can be harmful to children if the parents continue to fight and argue and can never get along. Children can be made out to believe that the divorce between their parents was their fault or that they aren’t loved anymore. However, children can come out strong in divorce as long as their parents can be co-parents without conflict. Divorce in America now is more common than it was back in the 1960’s and 70’s. Many couples got divorced due to infidelity and abuse. Now, in this day and age, men and women get divorced due to their own personal happiness. Professor Tamara D. Afifi spoke on a TEDxTalk in 2012 and said that many children from families who divorced and fight have more trust issues and hurt more on the inside than from children whose parents get along and co-parent without conflict. (Afifi, 2012) Each year, over 1 million American children suffer the divorce of their parents; Half of American children born this year will witness divorce with their parents. Of that 50% another 50% will experience a second divorce. (Rector & Fagan, 2000) Many believe that divorce has a negative effect on children. Not only does it cause them to have trust issues and often have relationship difficulties later in life, but they tend to dwell on the divorce as their fault. Children of divorced parents perform...
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...Divorce Conflict Hurts Children Christina Henderson DeVry University Divorce Conflict Hurts Children Six year old Olivia stands alone in front of her bedroom window, silent tears streaming down her tiny face. She watches her father put his suitcase in his car and drive away. She does not know what divorce is, but she does know on some internal level, that her life will never be the same. Olivia is right; divorce is a watershed event in the life of a child. Life following a divorce is dramatically changed from how life was before. The purpose of this proposal is to convince divorced parents to stop engaging in hostility and conflict with their ex-wives and ex-husbands so the children do not continue to suffer more. Divorce is commonplace in today’s world; 40 to 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, annulment, or separation (Issitt, 2014, para. 8). Children of divorced parents are at a disadvantage socially, emotionally, and financially, and the effects of divorce on children are amplified by conflict between the parents. As a child of a messy divorce, I know firsthand how harmful parental conflict can be to a child; I still deal with it today, 30 years after my parents’ divorce. I will further establish credibility by including information from Pickhardt (2011), Sedacca (2014), and Whitehead (2013), who are experts on child psychology and divorce. Approximately half of all marriages in the United States now end in divorce, this issue affects millions of people in our country...
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...the idea of building relationships with others. In turn, the society begins to collapse and literally ends with the city in flames. He also illustrates how much the real world relates to the crumbling world in the novel through technology, their current events, and the way the people treat certain issues. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury through his use of literary terms exposes how literature saves society from its inevitable demise by revealing today’s society’s weaknesses, challenges readers to connect the dystopian society in the book to reality, and demonstrates how human connections give people a reason to live and love. Even when Bradbury was a child he was interested in literature. In the article “Ray Bradbury: Martian...
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...Abstract The main purpose of this extended project dissertation is as following: to explore the causes of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, in particular the biological, psychological and societal causes. Eating disorders are becoming increasingly common in today’s society and the causes of theses disorders are not completely known. This essay explores the symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, the risks and consequences of suffering from such disorders. The essay also concentrates upon how eating disorders are gradually affecting more and more men and children – something that was not often seen before. The main focus of this project is to discover whether the causes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa stem from pre-dispositions which are linked with the body and mind or rather stemmed from society. The main biological reasons which the essay focuses on are; damaged hypothalamuses and genetic hereditariness. The main environmental causes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa that I have studied are media influences and undesirable conditions for raising children. In writing this project I believe that I have developed valuable skills that I will need in my subjects which include; being able to extract key information from large pieces of text, researching, speedy note taking and the ability to weigh up two sides of an argument fairly and without bias. I am also aware that the skills I am developing while writing this dissertation...
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...3 MARKETING AN INTRODUCTION Armstrong/Kotler Analyzing the Marketing Environment Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter Outline • • • • • • • • • The Company’s Microenvironment The Company’s Macroenvironment Demographic Environment Economic Environment Natural Environment Technological Environment Political and Social Environment Cultural Environment Responding to the Marketing Environment 3- 2 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Marketing environment The actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers. • Studying the marketing environment allows marketers to take advantage of opportunities and combat threats • Marketing intelligence and research are used to collect information about the environment 3-3 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 3- 3 Actors in the Microenvironment • The actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers—the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics 3- 4 Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Microenvironment- (1) The Company Top Management Finance R&D Purchasing Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Operations Accounting 3- 5 Microenvironment - (1) The Company ...
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...Destruction of the Family Throughout history, societies that valued traditional marriage and sexual abstinence were able to remain fundamentally strong and have flourished. Once a society decides to abandon these simple principles, destruction inevitably follows. J. Unwin (1934) wrote, “In human records, there is no instance of a society retaining its energy after a complete new generation has inherited a tradition which does not insist on prenuptial and postnuptial continence” (Unwin, 1934, p. 174). In today’s society, family and marriage are not defined by the traditional definition handed down through several millennia of history; rather the definition has been warped, and a new unstable version of the family has been accepted by our society. Traditional marriage is by its nature, the foundation of the family. The family is the building block of society, and marriage is the basis of the family. The devaluation of the conventional family, and more specifically, the destruction of traditional marriage by divorce, can have no other outcome but the destruction of our society. There are many reasons to evaluate why we have arrived at this state in our society: the growth of consumerism and commercialism, influence of Hollywood over our lives, the decline of religiosity in the United States, the decline of the social order and neighborhood relationships. All of these reasons are legitimate causes for the decay of our society. However, only one cause has wielded its destructive...
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...explanation of the various forms of work-life initiatives that can be offered to employees. The research concludes that while some work-life initiatives cost employers, there isn’t any valid financial profit, but the benefits have been shown in the employees working environment and behavior. Employees work at a higher productive rate when they have job satisfaction, in which work-life initiatives are identified as a leading contender in job satisfaction. Introduction The business world has transformed over the years. It has become a diverse environment with women and men from all ethnic backgrounds. With a diverse background derives various stressors that affect the productivity of employees. In today’s economy, having one household income is becoming an event of the past. People are struggling to balance their home and work life. Businesses have been reorganizing their programs to combat some of the issues that are brought by having a diverse community. Some businesses have developed work-life initiatives to educate and aid employees in discovering the right balance for them. The question is, are work-life initiatives truly productive? To determine if they are truly productive, we have to evaluate whether they are necessary. What was the world like without them? It is important to understand how a business is widely affected by the lack of work-life initiative and programs to offer to its employees. The next question to ask yourself is, what are work-life...
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...Unemployment With the economy struggling unemployment is a term that we have come to hear far too often over the past several years. Everywhere you turn millions of people are struggling to find some type of work. Those that are jobless find often themselves losing their sense of self respect, purpose, and income. Many of them will have their homes and cars repossessed. Sadly enough it is not just the individuals themselves that are hurt, their families also struggle along with them. Many people in today’s society think that unemployment does not affect them. The sad truth is that unemployment affects everyone on several different levels. The government is affect by benefit to be paid out and loss of tax earnings, businesses are affected by less spending, the unemployed face loss of ability to survive, and in general every working individual has to pick up the expenses through their taxes (McClelland & Macdonald, 1998). What is Unemployment and The Causes To understand how unemployment affects society one must first understand what defines a person as being truly unemployed. Unemployment is defined as when individuals do not have a job and they are able, willing, and seeking some form of work (Tucker, 2001). Not everyone that does not have a job is included in the unemployment numbers. Some of these people include full time students, retired people, and the disabled, and those that are not actively seeking work. Then there is the discourage worker. These are people that want to work and...
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...only the United States but the entire world. It is imperative that society learns all they can about this issue. As a whole, society needs to discover the indicators of sexual abuse, the appropriate ways to report suspected abuse and how to help those that have been abused so they are not continually victimized by their past. This paper will explore child abuse and child sexual abuse in six parts. The first part will begin with the earliest references of child abuse as a whole. The second part will continue on to the emergence of the issue of child abuse on the social and political scene. The third part of this paper will show when and how sexual abuse first became recognized as part of the child abuse issue. The fourth part of this paper will move into the effects of child sexual abuse. The fifth part will cover child sexual abuse intervention methods and the sixth part will focus on the treatments available to help victims in the present as well as the future. PART ONE: CHILD ABUSE’S PAST In the ancient world, infanticide was common practice in nearly all cultures. Children were killed at birth if they did not seem fit. Fathers were permitted to kill their newborns if they deemed the child was abnormal. Children that showed signs of being physically handicapped were killed by order of the tribal elders by leaving the child out exposed to the elements. Midwives were instructed by physicians to kill children that were unfit. After the child was born, they’d examine the infant...
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...statements and/or questions that have been given to a select group of people allowing for the mathematical measurement of personal beliefs, attitudes, values and/or behavioral tendencies. | An example of a survey that would be applicable to society would be the issues and effects of marital separation that brings about disruption in the household and negatively affects the children as well as the spouses ability to cope and adjust which ultimately prevents reconciliation thereby leads to divorce. | An example of a survey that applies to criminal justice would be a survey that addresses how to change the public’s opinions and attitudes toward the criminal justices system. This survey would include the common criminal acts in their community, how they are currently being handled, what would like to see in the way of changing their community, what their expectations are of the local police, the changes they would like to see with how the police and criminal justice system handle these perpetrators. | Due to today’s economic hard times, I think a great survey could be how this nation’s economy has brought about change in the average American household and how individual’s are making adjustments to their economic behavior. When dealing with the household, and assuming there are children present, what is the family’s current income, do both parents work, how are the children being cared for if both parents work, and what type of changes are being made to support the family? When it comes...
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...Chapter 1 – Study Questions: 1. What are the four key features of the lifespan perspective as identified by Paul Baltes. Provide original examples for each feature. (pp. 4-5) Paul Baltes identified 4 features of the life-span perspective: 1. Multidirectionality: development involves both growth and decline – as people grow in one area they may lose in another and this may occur at different rates Ex: (Book): people’s vocabulary abilities tends to increase throughout life, but reaction time tends to slow down. Ex: (original): Language acquisition. At a young age children are able to learn multiple languages very quickly. However, as they get older, their ability to learn multiple languages quickly becomes more difficult. Social situations. At a young age children are not able to understand complex social situations such as parents fighting or divorce or financial problems between their parents. As they grow up and age, they begin to understand these social situations and deal with them. They may comfort a parent through a hard time, or go get a job to help with the financial situation. 2. Plasticity: One’s capacity is not predetermined or set in concrete. Many skills can be trained or improved with practice, even late in life. There are limits to the degree of potential improvement Ex: (original): Your IQ is not predetermined. You’re ability to play a sport is not predetermined. With practice and dedication you can improve your ability to play the sport. However...
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...States to look back and ask, where did we go wrong? When we think about it all though there really isn’t too much that anyone did wrong, the problem is the number of elderly people that are soon going to be on Medicare and any other state funded programs. There is no one to blame for this though, unless you want to blame doctors and specialists for keeping mom and dad or grandma and grandpa alive longer so that we can enjoy their presence. Elderly people and the demographical changes that are happening. Choosing elderly people as my topic was not an easy choice because there are so many other things that are affecting everything demographically. I chose the elderly people because they are going to be the ones that are going to need the most help financially over the next few years. The people that are over the age of 65 are the largest population in today’s society. Every day in the United States there is at least 6,000 American people that will turn 65 years old there is also 3,800 Americans that will turn 85. The number of elderly persons in the United States is growing at such a dramatic rate that the future of the social security department and the healthcare environments is looking at some very rough times financially. The people that are really looking at hard times are the elderly themselves, how do you think they feel knowing that in 10 years they may not receive that right healthcare coverage that they deserve? Today the average age that a person will retire at is...
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