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    Ball/Bindler/Cowen‚ Principles of Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children 5th Edition Test Bank Chapter 2 Question 1 Type: MCMA The mother of a newly hospitalized pediatric patient asks the nurse about the advantages of “rooming in.” The nurse could indicate which items are confirmed by research as benefits when a parent “rooms in”? Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. Sleeping more soundly. 2. Requiring shortened recovery periods. 3. Having less anxiety during procedures. 4. Requiring

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    Conjugal Roles within the family‚ are they Symmetrical This essay aims to examine whether the conjugal roles within the western family have become more symmetrical. The essay will be mainly based on the opinions of Young and Willmott however it will be heavily critiqued by Ann Oakley –radical feminist. The definition of the family is a group of people who are related by kinship: Kinship refers to the relations of blood‚ marriage/civil partnership or adoption (Browne 2011 p 85). Before the industrial

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    In the movie Ordinary People‚ The Jarrett family is a prime example of a family being torn apart because of a lack of communication. The Jarrett family cannot Acknowledge the loss of Buck and attempted suicide by Conrad. The Jarrett family could benefit a lot from family therapy to help them communicate. Their overall dysfunction comes from a lack of communication and turning on each other at any moment. Throughout the movie‚ The Jarretts each display acts of “silence” and “violence” toward each

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    Major Trends The institution of family is a basic unit in the society‚ and the multifaceted functions performed by it makes it a much-needed institution in a society. Some of the important functions performed by the family include‚ reproduction of new members and socializing them‚ and provision of emotional and physical care for older persons and young. Family in fact‚ is an institution which resolves or eases a large number of social problems. The term family had been defined by various sociologists

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    Certainly the term ’family’ has raised various debates in the modern society and as evident from the study of different cultures‚ there is now no clear taxonomy of a family unit. From a functionalists point of view‚ it is a unit of people bound together either biologically or by legal marriage. To support this theory‚ Murdock defines it as a group consisting of a sexually active heterosexual couple living with their biological or adopted children.(Haralambos M & Langley P). However‚ in other

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    Modern Family Family is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. It is a basic unit of social structure. How a society defines family as a primary group‚ and the functions it asks families to perform‚ are by no means constant. There has been much recent discussion of the nuclear family‚ which consists only of parents and children‚ but the nuclear family is by no means universal. In the United States‚ the percentage of households consisting of a nuclear family declined

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    that the conventional nuclear family remains the norm in Britain today. [24 marks] Sociologist Edmund Leech (1967) defined the nuclear family as the ‘cereal packet norm’ due to often appearing in advertisements for breakfast cereals. This type of family consisted of a male provider‚ enhancing the patriarchy with a female homemaker‚ along with their dependent children‚ originally assumed as the ideal family by Hilary Land. Talcott Parsons believes that the conventional family type alters depending

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    The world has been undergoing great changes in different spheres of life just in the past several decades. One of the most amazing and quick changes seems to be happening within the institution of the family. I have a special interest in this topic‚ as soon as I witness the radical change going on literally before my eyes: my home country‚ which was a country with traditional society‚ after the collapse of the Soviet Union went and is still going through the process of transformation‚ which introduces

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    Family Family Tywanna Baker Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101) Emily Frydrych June 26‚ 2011 Family Family is considered a basic unit in society‚ and one of the oldest social institution. Family is the basis of a successful society‚ and is a positive institution. Families are structured around kinship‚ marriage‚ blood‚ or social bond that joins people into a families. Family is an institution which resolves or eases a large number of social problems. There are two types

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    Family Structure‚ Institutions‚ and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations By AVNER GREIF* There is a vast amount of literature that considers the importance of the family as an institution. Little attention‚ however‚ has been given to the impact of the family structure and its dynamics on institutions. This limits our ability to understand distinct institutional developments—and hence growth—in the past and present. This paper supports this argument by highlighting the importance

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