...One may think that families are made of people related by blood or marriage; one may also think families must consist of mothers, fathers, and children. A family can be people growing up together with common interests. A family can be a class or a team that works together to be great. However, a family always consists of a group of people that have infinite love for each other and will do anything for one another. In John Grisham’s Bleachers, Coach Eddie Rake is a father to every young man who ever played football on his team. In return, every young man who played on the team is bound as a band of brothers that look out for each other. Not every team is like this, Eddie Rake’s football team became one; they became a family. Families begin anywhere and everywhere, Eddie Rake started to build his family as he began coaching in 1958. As a Eddie Rake’s career began in 1958, he also became a father. Rake became a father to twenty-one young men that put on the forest green jersey of a Spartan. That year and thirty-three years to follow, Rake became a father...
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...couple my parents have raised two men, giving them unconditional support and teaching great values. Although an effort is done to be parallel parents, as many others, my parents dis harmonize in many aspects of life. Ricardo, my father, was born in Mexico City, but raised in a small town located in the southwest part of Mexico, Arandas Jalisco. Ricardo’s rural background has influenced his children’s lives. His parenting is more “shoot first, ask questions later”. Meeting deadlines, paying bills on time, learning the mechanics of cars, are what my father teaches and expects from his children. Whenever a tire goes flat in the middle of the road, my reaction is to pull over and change it to the spare tire, fix the problem or purchase a new one comes later. Ricardo is very laid-back when granting permissions, he only inquiries a few phone calls or text messages and to...
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...roles of parents are an integral part in the development of a child in youth sports. With many families having two working parents it may be hard for these parents to properly get involved in their child’s life. The wrong kind of involvement could lead to children being “babied” or leading them to believe winning is what is most important. This brings on unnecessary pressure creating a negative experience for the child. How parents get involved and how they teach sports to their children both have a significant effect on the child’s experience in youth sports. Many parents have become conditioned into thinking one of their only roles in their child’s life in sports, is to be a taxi cab driver or chauffer, and to make sure they’re registered and signed up for the leagues, camps, or clinics. Parents often forget that they can and should be more involved with their children. In the article “The Good Father: Parental Expectation and Youth Sports” the author discusses the father’s role in youth sports. In society, fathers are looked upon as the head of the house, the one who makes all the money. Fathers become involved in sport because it is a way to be a part of their children’s lives, since it interests them as well. Fathers are looked at as the ones that are physically involved with the children, by teaching and showing them how to play the game. Fathers are also said to be the ones who consult with coaches, scout out the opponents,...
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...lives with her crazy, sick father which is her only parent figure in the film, and with a community full of brave and wild people. In the film, Hushpuppy and her community face a storm which ends up exposing...
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...Chapter II Theoretical and Conceptual Framework This chapter presents the relevant theory and related literature and studies, conceptual framework, and the operational definition of terms used in the study. Relevant Theory This study was conceptualize and guided by the following relevant theory: Social Learning Theory. Bandura’s (1993) vicarious conditioning/social learning theory stressed that behavior patterns are developed through observation and direct experience within biological limits. It emphasizes that human behavior is the mutual interaction between cognitive behavioral and environmental dominants. People are affected by external forces although they can choose how to behave. Bandura further claims that one effect of observation of models can lead to the acquisitionof responses and to the change of frequency of behavior already learned. Social learning theory explains human behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal interaction between cognitive behavioral and environmental influences. Within the process of reciprocal determinism lies the opportunity for people to influence their destiny as well as the limits of self-direction. A direct and complex interaction may positive interactive reflection of a good relationship. It is clearly important that for any individual, a constructive environment may help to maximize his full potentials in dealing with future undertakings; the parents and significant others place more importance influencing the total-well-being...
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...Both parents should assume equal responsibility in raising a child. “Single-parent families are families with children under the age of 18 headed by a parent who is widowed or divorced and not remarried, or by a parent who has never married. (answers.com/single parent families). Both parents should be held responsible in raising and caring for their child. Each year there are 4,130,665 children born in the United States. (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.html) Of these children, one in four will be products of single parent homes whether it is being raised by the mother or the father. According to the U.S. Census Bureau as of November, 2009, there are approximately 13.7 million single parents in the United States, and those parents are responsible for raising 21.8 million children. That was years ago so the numbers have increased since then. These results do show however that these people that have found themselves as single parents did start out in committed relationships and had no intentions of raising their child or children alone. (Single Parent Statistics By Jennifer Wolf). The position that I take regarding this topic is that both parents should be held responsible for taking care of their child. Once paternity has been established then it is the lifelong job of each parent to provide for their child not only financially but as a support of some sort. The parent’s actions should be in the best interest of the child or children whether they decide...
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...family of three a mother father and their beautiful daughter Cinderella they were a very happy family. One day after Cinderella was put to bed her mother passed out. The next day a doctor came out to see if she was sick when he came out of her room he looked down and shook his head. Cinderella’s father knew what that look meant so he walked the doctor out and talked to him as he came back in his wife had called him into the room. Then Cinderella’s mother asked her to come into the room she took her by the hand and told her that she had a secret that would lead her through all of the trials life has to offer. She told her “To have courage and be kind.” Then they had one last family hug before Cinderella’s mother passed away. Cinderella and her father had many wonderful years together. One day...
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...be the one working to support the family. However, with men switching roles with women whereas the women become the pillar of support for the family it is gradually becoming acknowledged by the society as there is now more and more numbers of successful househusbands. Househusbands are outsiders due to the law and the traditional thinking of the government and the problem of finance. According to Pereira, 2005. The only obstacle between the father staying at home and taking care of the child is their financial situation. The financial woes are their greatest source of concern rather than them being tied down to the responsibilities of a child. However, there is now a 33% of men willing to work part-time and take care of their children. The weekend Australia (2013: 13-14) reported that there is a slow rise in the number of single fatherhood however many fathers are not willing by the lack of support and being regarded as a disgrace for men to be in this kind of positions. This is caused by the traditional thinking that men are the main family breadwinners whereas the women are the caretakers of the children. Influenced by such thinking, the government only has laws placed in favour of the women and does not support men being the caretaker of the child. According to the weekend Australia (2013: 13-14), in 2006, the Howard government changed the law for the single parents allowing both parents to take care of the child and making sure the child knew both his father and mother...
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...University of the Philippines in the Visayas-Cebu College Social Sciences Division S.Y. 2005-2006 Coping Strategies of Children Reared by Single Parents: A Psychological Study Thesis (Psychology 195) Carabio, Charmaine Statement of the Problem 1. What are the respondents’ concepts of an ideal family? 2. What are the respondents’ perceived causes of their condition? 3. What are the respondents’ dimensions of the perceived cause of their condition? 4. What are the common problems encountered by the respondents being reared by a single parent? 5. What are the common coping mechanisms of respondents? 6. What are the respondents’ nature of relationship with the parent living with and not living with? 7. What is the respondents’ frequency of communication with the parent living with and not living with? 8. What is the respondents’ level of self-esteem? 9. What is the respondents’ level of assessment of their condition? 10. What is the respondents’ level of quality of relationship with the parent not living with? 11. Is there a significant association between self-esteem and the following variables: 1. assessment of condition? 2. quality of relationship with the parent not living with 12. Is there a significant difference between self-esteem and the following variables: 1. type of family? 2. employment status of parent living with the respondent? 3. perceived...
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...“The Achievement of Desire” RICHARD RODRIGUEZ I stand in the ghetto classroom—"the guest speaker"—attempting to lecture on the mystery of the sounds of our words to rows of diffident students. "Don't you hear it? Listen! The music of our words. 'Sumer is i-cumen in… ' And songs on the car radio. We need Aretha Franklin's voice to fill plain words with music—her life." In the face of their empty stares, I try to create an enthusiasm. But the girls in the back row turn to watch some boy passing outside. There are flutters of smiles, waves. And someone's mouth elongates heavy, silent words through the barrier of glass. Silent words—the lips straining to shape each voiceless syllable: "Meet meee late errr." By the door, the instructor smiles at me, apparently hoping that I will be able to spark some enthusiasm in the class. But only one student seems to be listening. A girl, maybe fourteen. In this gray room her eyes shine with ambition. She keeps nodding and nodding at all that I say; she even takes notes. And each time I ask a question, she jerks up and down in her desk like a marionette, while her hand waves over the bowed heads of her classmates. It is myself (as a boy) I see as she faces me now (a man in my thirties). The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum. Thus with one sentence I can summarize my academic career. It will be harder to summarize...
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...struggling with the guilt of not seeing her family enough, but this just took it to a whole new level. She was driving to the house. The house where her father was dying and her mother was heartbroken. She was a storyteller, it was as simple as that. Her father loved her stories, and she loved telling them. She was telling him 1 last story until his time was up. A story to say goodbye. The trip wasn’t long. She reached the big blue house with the white picket fence and stepped out to admire the beauty of it all. Her mother, Mary, came running out, a worried look on her face. “Honey, he’s almost gone. I know this is going to be hard, but he wants you to tell him a story. One last story.” Louise took in a breath, nodded and began to walk towards the house. She soon reached her father’s room, her fingers grasping at the lock. It swung open. Her father spun...
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...you are a little boy. “Indian Camp” begins at the lake shore, Nick, uncle George and his father, which is a local doctor, are summoned to an Indian reservation to assist a woman whom had been in an agonising labor for two days. As they managed to come across the lake, Nick, uncle George and his father are led to the Indian reservation, where they find the woman recumbent in the shanty. Beside the woman, they find her husband, which has an injured foot as a result of working with an axe. However Nick’s father concentrates on the reason he has gotten to the Indian reservation, but on the given time, the complications of the childbirth is already enough, which leads to his decision of making a caesarean section. During the operation, the woman wrenches in agony and therefore all the men in the reservation help holding her. He delivers the baby boy safely. Furthermore Nick’s father asks him to attend when he is going to sew up the incision he has made, but Nick declines. Given that Nick’s curiosity had vanished long time ago. Nick’s father is self-satisfied and exalted, with his operation considering the remedies he had along with him. When Nick’s father turns towards the husband of the pregnant Indian woman to congratulate him, he discovers that the husband has slit his throat and the razor lies next to him. Nicks father then orders uncle George to get Nick out of the shanty,...
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...Thank you to everyone who is here today to pay tribute to my father, William Joseph. I know that many of you had to travel long distances to be here and it is a reflection on Joe that there are so many loving friends and relatives here today. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is David and I am Joe’s, in layman’s terms adoptive son. He took me in and raised me when my biological father failed to raise to the occasion. It is hard to imagine what my life would be like without his guidance and support. Joe was the hardest working person that I have ever met. He worked hard at his career, harder around the house, but also worked very hard at being a great father, and friend. I remember when I was a child thinking that Joe was a slave driver with the relentless work he made us kids do around the house. I remember one chore on a weekend morning. Joe again had little Joe and I working around the house. At one point instead of carrying paint cans down into the basement as instructed I thought it would be a good idea to toss them down the stairs. When one finally busted open, I can’t even begin to describe how angry he was. Needless to say I spent a long time doing clean up. As an adult I realized it was a life lesson he was teaching us with all those weekend chores. He taught us what hard work really was, how to earn what you want and appreciate what you have and earned. Joe was very intelligent, a realist, and some how was always able to see the big picture and the end result...
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...Family Homes, the Causes of all Evil? When carefully studying youth delinquency the easiest thing to do is group all delinquent youths under one common denominator. Unfortunately for Jennifer Roback, it is impossible to find a common link that truly is a route cause because there are always too many other variables at play that may or may not be full known to the researcher. To suggest that living with a single parent, or in the case of this article, a single mother; those children raised in such households have very little chance at living inside the constitutes of the law. While it may seem that the previous wording used here is strong, the point she is making is that single mother families do not work and that children with absent fathers are doomed to be criminals, or at least have almost no chance to be a productive member of society. While there are countless examples of people you and I both know people that are well adjusted, successful individuals raised in single mother households, the slant on this article is so strongly negative that it would seem the very thought of associating with such people could be a detriment on ourselves. In fact, taking this article as cold hard fact, could transform all ideas about development as a child in general for instance; Roback states that, “The basic self-control and reciprocity that a free society takes for granted do not develop automatically. Conscience development takes place in childhood. Children need to develop empathy...
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...do in life. She is the one person in my life who has kept me on a straight path to success, because she has always told me that failure isn't an option .If you set your heart and soul out to do something you must succeed in anyway possible I have Iearned from my mother to believe in god, and do my very best at everything I do. She has always told me and my brothers to treat people the way you want to be treated, and never take for granted the talents god has given you, because there are people out there less fortunate. I'm thankful for all the small things my mother has done for me, because its all the small things in life that really add up to something. My mother is a very hard worker, she has been working all of her life, and to this day she is still working. She never complained about her life. When she was sometimes tired from work, she still makes time for her family, and makes sure that we have done our...
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