Outline: I. Introduction II. Social-Conflict Theory III. Family Structure and Statistics IV. The effect on Children V. Financial Effects VI. Minorities VII. Support and Love is the Key VIII. Conclusion Introduction How do family situations affect the outcome of children? Does a two parent family typically have children that are more likely to succeed than a one parent or step parent family? How big a role do finances put on that outcome? I’ll put a different twist on it as well‚ by
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Family Matters The definitions of a family today and a family in the past are far from similar. The definitions may have some similarities but they have changed dramatically in many more ways. 50 years ago‚ families had rules that were stricter and families were closer in the sense of a relationship. Although some families today are more distant from each other and have fewer rules to maintain order‚ there are still some that maintain the same styles of the families 50 years ago. Families have
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Single parent families Beanpole families Extended family Reconstituted families Cultural diversity Class diversity Sexual diversity The proportion of families living in single parent families has more than tripled in the last 30 years to 24%. Not all single parents have been married .births outside marriage have become more socially accepted today. Changes in religious and social values have made it less likely to for single parents to be labelled and stigmatised. 1) Roseneil & budgeon- argue
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The world has changed a great deal over the past thirty years. Lives based on a comfortable home in the suburbs‚ a station wagon‚ three kids‚ and thirty years of job security with one employer have become memories. (1) Even the way we view relationships has changed significantly. Today more people are choosing to be in a long distance relationship than ever before. In a study recently performed by the University of North Carolina‚ it was shown that there are currently over 85 million people in the
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view that in today’s society the family is losing its functions. For many years‚ the family has had a set of functions that every family has had to follow in order to fit in with society. Some of these functions include social control and the gender-role socialisation. Some Sociologists that have explored these functions are Murdock and Parsons. Murdock looks at reproductive‚ sexual and economic functions. Whereas‚ Parsons looks at the primary socialisation of children and the warm bath theory. I will
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Planning family holidays is a particular challenge for the millions of divorced families out there. In fact‚ one out of three Americans is part of a blended family (and I suspect the statistics are similar for Canadians). Divorced families face an even bigger challenge with holiday planning with children shuttling back and forth between mom’s house and dad’s house. There are all those logistical questions. Whose turn is it to have the children for Christmas morning? What if both parents are having
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BLENDED FAMILIES 3 Blended Families A Review of The Literature Cartwright (2010) found that couples who re-marry after divorce can often be led to that decision by the need for an intimate relationship and the benefits they receive from that relationship. The need for financial means also brought some to the decision that they would cohabitate before re-marrying. Cartwright also came to the conclusion that while a lot of the participants in the study were aware of the possible difficulties
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Family Composition Yes‚ it seems that a family is one of the biggest God’s gifts. As a rule‚ we do not notice this in our everyday life. We just know that we have our mom and dad‚ grandparents‚ and other family members. And only in some specific moments we realize how these people are important to us‚ and that no one else in this world will love us as they do. In my family I still have my mom and my dad; I’m the eldest among my three siblings. There are three girls and only one boy in
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the family – a universal social institution In a study entitled Social Structure (1949)‚ George Peter Murdock examined the institution of the family in a wide range of societies. Murdock took a sample of 250 societies‚ ranging from small hunting and gathering bands to large-scale industrial societies. He claimed that some form of family existed in every society‚ and concluded‚ on the evidence of his sample‚ that the family is universal. Murdock defined the family as follows: The family is a
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What does family mean to you? “People you share love with a guess. I don’t think that it means only blood relation. Friends can be family because you can become so close and trust each other‚” explained Bridgett Terry‚ the subject of my ethnography interview. What is family? She went on to describe that technically family is a social group made of parents and their children‚ whether they all live together or not. No matter where you are in the world‚ your family is always your family. It is not a
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