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Contemporary Threats to Marriage and the Family

evolved to the point, in fact, where the extended families of old have been severed. So-called nuclear families have arisen in th...

When Parents Aren’t Parents: The Impact of Dysfunctional Parents on Their Children

that others do not. We need to understand the obstacles these children face in order to help them and by doing so, help society as...

Child Development and Blended Families

parents and an undertanding of the roots of conflict. Marsolinis (2000) perspective is one that comes from the value in applyin...

Adult Day Care in North Carolina

includes seniors centers focusing on social and wellness programs and activities, adapting healthcare needs to those standards rat...

A Health and Nutrition Education Plan

their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...

Moody and Chopin: The Corrupting Power of Family

a corrupting force through the influence of inherited societal prejudice. This paragraph helps the student analyze the particula...

Family Studies - The Feminist Approach

feminists that marriage and the family exploit the female is not unique. This is also seen in Marxist theories, for example Zarets...

Major Theories of Family Crisis and Adaptation

stressors that are present at any given time are more than can be mitigated for through the general adaptations and minor changes ...

Enterprises Owned by Families

in these businesses face different challenges than others because there is a family dynamic and a business dynamic. Often, if ther...

Changes in the Traditional Family and Their Impact on Community

Outline I. Introduction A. Child Rearing is a Primary Function of Society B. Social Change...

Using Gestalt Theory with Families

own feelings, behaviors and thoughts. The phenomenological method of gaining awareness is about "perceiving, feeling and acting" (...

FAMILY, THEORIES AND SOCIETAL IMPACT

Discusses the relationship between family and society. Also discussed are the family stress and symbolic interaction theories. The...

Educational Alternatives for Poverty-Stricken Children

that schools located in working-class neighborhoods tend to be more regimented than schools located in suburban neighborhoods wher...

Family Reactions to a Member’s Troubles in Baldwin and Kafka

stress, particularly when the stress also involves a violation of social "norms." Some have suggested that Gregors "metamorphosis"...

Aspects of Family Therapy

to the position of trying to improve the clients ability to change and control themselves, self-organization also lined to circula...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

Earning Minimum Wage with a Family to Support

If the husband is bedridden, ideally both of the older children should be in daycare (the oldest in after school care), but there ...

Uncertainty and Culture Change

parents for the safety of their children, wanting to know where they are and who they are with. There is an increased feeling of t...

Abuse and Family Violence

behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...

Families in Poverty and Welfare Reform

study also integrates data that relates to educational gains and other measures that can reduce the use of welfare, reduce the pov...

Hong Kong Family Therapy and Systems Theory

colleagues applied the same ideas to families and discovered that systems theory provided an ideal medium for gaining insight into...

Nursing Issues and the Health Issues of the West Family

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

Marriage Changes

responsibility for child-rearing or housekeeping duties traditionally assigned to women (Luker, 2003). To complicate things still ...

Black Families in White America by Billingsley

the black family, which had brought them from their early salve days to the current condition that is admittedly less than stellar...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

Food Budgeting in Relation to the US Poverty Standard

lower than in other parts of the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. ...

Differences Between Dysfunctional and Functional Families

Actions and behaviors therefore are at least partially the result of the inherent relationships that exist within the family. ...

Welfare to Work Program and Family Literacy

work, he or she is expected to work. It also means that if welfare recipients are capable of working, but need education or traini...

Rights and Wisconsin v. Yoder

both the Amish religion and the Amish way of life (University of Missouri/Kansas City, 2003). The parents felt that by sending the...