In my opinion, some families today are no longer able to adequately meet the needs of their members. In today’s society, there are many instances where women, youths and children are in a horrible state of living. They are being abuse and maltreated by their own irresponsible parents or spouse. Not meeting their basic needs is considered as neglecting them. Neglect is a type of abuse where individuals fail to meet the basic needs of their dependent person. Victims of neglect are usually children, people with disabilities, and frail older adult. It occurs when a clean environment is not provided. In some cases, parents may even withhold or deny basic needs such as food water or clothing. Personal care medical care, education, and attention and love may also be denied or withheld. They may knowingly neglect their dependent or unintentionally neglect the person because they are unable to provide adequate care. For example, when a parent work too much and do not pay any attention to their children’s needs, like going to the doctor because of a tooth ache or any injury and pain, he/she is already abusing them. Looking into a bigger picture, there are many other issues of abuse that are happening in our society. For instance, the rate of abortion and women abuse are getting higher. I believe that those problems and many others are effect of a poor family relationship. Base on the meaning of family, it is the smallest and basic unit of society, however family is also the beginning of the society. Children who are considered as the fruit of the family are the ones who replace the older generation. If a person has a very strong personality, we can infer that there are many reasons why he/she has that kind of personality. If all children were brought up the way they’re supposed to be, our society would be in a good shape, but because there are many difficulties that are happening in our…
Our family is huge in determining who we are and what we are all about. They tell us from day one what is good about us and what we can or cannot do and we absorb it all as children letting it shape us. Our family in most cases dictate our political beliefs, our economic beliefs, our religion, and our social beliefs and frame our overall view of the world. Think of the beliefs you developed outside of the family and you won’t find many. Now the problem these days is that the family as we know is falling apart. There are too many single parent families; a young man does not have a role model for a male because the dad is not there. This is a problem as that young man now gets his idea of being a man from bad influences, such as local thugs or a character from a movie. Even with the families fragmenting these days, the role of the family in our lives is huge beyond anything we can ever understand.…
In every society the family is the primary unit around which society is organized. The word ‘family’ in many developing countries has a connotation different from that attributed to it in Western industrialized countries. While in industrialized countries a family is constituted of a man, his wife and…
When a mother’s love is not enough is a documentary directed by Stephan Atkinson. The documentary express an issue around the world about a reality of how difficult to raise a disabled child. Rosa Monckton is the mother of a teenage daughter with down syndrome. Down syndrome is where a child is born with extra chromosomes. The people born with down syndrome learn slower than the normal people and they have trouble expressing their feeling. Monckton stated that with the help of family and friends, she learned how to accept her daughter for who she was, not for who she might be (1:26). The film’s main point is to show that is difficult how families are effected by their children’s…
In conclusion, I do believe that the weakening in families is one of the primary causes to America’s societal problems. Families lack discipline, parenting, communication, and so much more. The advancement of technology has damaged our focus on the meaning of enjoying a family. Laws ordain have cause a support to the injustice of children and limit the amount of discipline a child needs. There are proposals to solve these issues and strengthen families so that the issues America faces today can decrease due the stability of families.…
The Philippine society households are accepted arrangements where respect and love for parents and older family members are taught and expected of the children. They are very close to each other and they also live about an hour apart from each other in America. They financially and physical take care of each other. They take in their family members if they are having difficulties. Caring for others is a complex skill which is learned throughout the development stages of the Filipino personality (Enriquez, 1994). Family members assist in financially funding family members that are in…
In history, it has been proven that family is one of the most strong and powerful bonds that can be created. With any bond, everyone plays an essential and necessary role to provide a stable foundation. With each role being so serious, what happens when a family member doesn’t live up to the responsibilities? There are many factor that can lead to this problem. Gail Godwin, author of "A Sorrowful Women", tells the life of a family in which the mother fails at mother and a wife. Godwin uses the events in the family life to give detailed characterization and a feminist theme.…
Family system theory is the most suitable theory in working towards having a strong bond between families. A family should have a strong bond with each other because they are blood –related and should be able to work together in making the most of life. Families should be able to communicate freely with each other in order to solve conflict or just have someone they can talk with. Families are the people who stick by each other’s sides in tough situation and should support each other even if someone does not agree with what is going on. Families should be able to express themselves to each other without feeling ashamed of what they believe in. Each family has an important impact on the rest of the family and the children involved. “The family operates as an interrelated and interdependent unit; therefore, events and experiences that have an impact on a particular family member also will have effect the other members of the family or the entire family unit (Minuchin, 1974).” (Gargiulo & Kilgo,…
There was a time in the past when being fatherlessness was far more common than it is today, but death was to blame, not divorce, desertion and out-of-wedlock births. All of these are choices that are made, not accidents. In theory, divorce need not mean disconnection. In reality, it often does. According to the Men’s Resource Network, from 1980 to 2011, the number of children living apart from their biological father rose from 21 percent to 53 percent. Of those children, Forty percent have not seen their father in at least one year. And, Fifty percent have never set foot in their father’s home. That leaves 10%----well guess what? Those 10% never meet their fathers at all. Men are not biologically as attuned to being committed fathers as women are to being committed mothers. Growing up without a father may be a root cause of many social ills—from crime to academic failure. If we truly love our children and have hope for a better nation, we must take immediate steps in addressing this problem. Our…
Imagine growing up without knowing your father while your friends may have hardworking loving fathers at home. Just thinking about that alone can traumatize a child for a while. Fatherlessness is a problem society should take action to address.…
Families are a basic foundation in all human communities around the world. Healthy individuals within these healthy families are at the centre of a healthy society. It is therefore in everyone’s best interest to help create a positive environment for all families. The family unit has changed over the years but its importance is still quite relevant. Both success and failures are faced with much more love and intensity when you have a family unit to fall back on. Family is the staple foundation in one’s life that instills a foundation of socialization, shape one’s true identity, and helps overcome life challenges.…
In my family, by being closely knit. we can very well show one special quality of us Filipinos. Also, showing our hospitality to our friends & visitors.…
Every family has its fair share of problems whether it be cultural or generational. Many families could just solve their problems and be fine with it, but many families cannot cope with work pressures, financial inconsistencies, divorce, maybe even the children of the household. But there is one thing that a family compromises of, and that is hope. In today’s modern era, family has a completely different meaning to it than past generations. Family can consist of anyone, blood related or not. Family now, is not the typical husband, wife and children, it much more different than that. Even if family does not carry the same meaning as it did in the past, that does not mean values are not carried throughout…
Within the family, there are three key processes by which children learn character and morality: forming emotional attachments, being taught prosocial behavior, and learning respect for authority and compliance with rules. All teaching of right and wrong begins with attachment--the warm, emotional tie that children have with their parents. Children learn from and are influenced most by those persons who are most meaningful to them, and the most meaningful adults are those to whom the child is emotionally attached. If a child does not have a strong emotional attachment to a parent, the effectiveness of the parent as a teacher and moral guide is greatly diminished. As social psychologist Willard W. Hartup has concluded, "A child 's effectiveness in dealing with the social world emerges largely from experience in close relationships. 8The basic units of the Philippine social organization are the elementary family which includes the mother, father and children, and the bilateral extended family which embraces all relatives of the father and the mother. Of special importance is the sibling group, the unit formed by brothers and sisters. There are no clans or similar unilateral kinship groups in the Philippines. The elementary family and the sibling group form the primary bases of corporate action. The Philippine society may be characterized as familial. This means that the influence of kinship, which centers on the family, is far-reaching. The persuasive influence of the family upon all segments of Philippine social organization can be illustrated in many ways. Religious responsibility, for example, is familial rather than church-centered. Each home has a family shrine. The influence of the family upon economic and entrepreneurial business activities is also great. The so-called "corporations" found in urban areas are generally family holdings. The prevailing family structure emphasizes loyalty and support of the family, not of any higher…
Filipinos are known to be food lovers. Food is linked with its culture and tradition. In Filipino family, food accounts for 43 percent of total expenditure (Palma, 2005).…