We all need things to survive, but we have different types of needs such as social needs, physical needs, and emotional needs. Physical needs can be like food, clothes, safety, and shelter. Emotional needs can be bue, acceptance, and feeling emotionally secure. Social needs are family because they help create and make social skills, an effective communication, and good manners. Families also usually teach values, share culture, traditions, and heritage.
Changes in family sometime occur. A blended family is a family that has a parent, a stepparent, and children of one or both parents. Children in a family sometimes have to make adjustments, those adjustments can sometimes be hard, emotional, and socially.
Many families have different relationships and feelings towards each other. Depending on the patterns of interactions among each other, or through their roles and relationships that they have helps to form their interactions. Family experiences can be different for each member and they may have different perspectives. Family dynamics can be helpful and healthy, and also can take unhelpful and unhealthy forms.
Some of those needs are the need for love, physiological needs, and safety and security. In the book “Night” Elie tells us about his experiences and how the basic needs of life were not met, by depriving them of love,
This analysis paper exams various styles of conflict and how this family chooses to handle their conflict. In 2005 Anthony and Jay were put in the custody of the State of California. Anthony was 5 years old and his brother Jay was 3 years old. After their mother Jackie a drug addict fell to provide, care or support them. Jackie would leave them with strangers and family member for extended periods of time.
There are many different kinds of Canadian families such as a nuclear family, extended families, childless families etc. Reconstructed or blended families are parents that have remarried and are living together with children from previous relationships. Blended families are on the rise in our society now that 40% of marriages end up in divorce in Canada. With most of the divorcees having children, it is not surprising that the number of blended families going up. These families face issues such as Legal and financial difficulties, territories being infringed upon, and Scheduling conflicts between the parents and the children.
Final Paper The person I chose to interview for this final paper was my mother, Peggy. I am going to start with providing a brief social history on her. Peggy was born on October 29, 1940 to my grandparents, Marie and John. She is the second of six children, and was raised in Philadelphia.
“The Proud Family” was first aired September 21, 2001. “The Proud Family” is about a 14 year old girl named Penny Proud voiced by Kyla Pratt. Penny is facing typical teenage experiences in middle school with help from her family. Penny’s family is her loving mother Trudy Proud voiced by Paula Jai Parker. Penny’s mother is a veterinarian.
Family structure talks about family arrangement and composition which includes the roles and interactions (Edelman, 2014). According to Minuchin (2012), the family structural theory emphasis on the important of the family structure and its changes that occurs and how the individuals in the family relate collectively over time to put up and accept each other. Minuchin says further that a well-functioning family will choose how to solve and handle the family experience with a positive outcome. The goal of a structural family is to express the strengths in each other in critical moments, and helping each other through it. Developmental theory is the methods used as the viewpoint of family tasking and development through phases of life (Edelman, 2014).
When physiological needs are met, the safety and security needs take place instead. Safety and security needs include protection from elements, security, order, law, limits and stability (maslow's hierarchy of needs, n.d.). It is essential for people to avoid from physical harm and societal chaos. The third level of need is social needs. For example, affection, family, friends, belongingness and intimacy are examples of social needs.
With this understanding, families often need help to resolve their predicaments, to be able to function together as a unit to different entities (Murdock, 2013). Scholars
This essay discusses how the family is viewed by two different sociological perspectives- functionalism and conflict theory. Firstly, ‘family’ is defined. Secondly, the main ideas of functionalism will be discussed followed by how this theory perceives the family. The main ideas of Conflict Theory will then be examined and how conflict theorists perceive the family.
Being in a blended family has been a struggle for me as well as my three siblings. What I have gained out of my situation is strong leadership skills and have been able to positively influence my brothers and sisters in the midst of family tension. I am the second oldest of four children. I have a stepbrother and sister, a half-brother, and a biological sister. Even though my stepbrother is a year older, I typically am the responsible one of the bunch.
Marriage is an important institution in a society and although there have been changes in the trend of marriage pattern, it is still very clear that marriage still matters. Marriage exists and its main aim is to bring two people together to form a union, where a man and a woman leave their families and join together to become one where they often start their own family. Sociologists are mostly interested in the relationship between marriage and family as they form the key structures in a society. The key interest on the correlation between marriage and family is because marriages are historically regarded as the institutions that create a family while families are on the other hand the very basic unit upon which our societies are founded on.
“The Changing American Family” by Natalie Angier states, “Fictive families are springing up among young people, old people, disabled people, homeless people, and may well define one of the ultimate evolutions of the family concept, maximizing, as they do, the opportunities for fulfillment of specific social and economic needs outside the constraints of biological relatedness.” The ever changing social dynamics and circumstances of this life have opened the definition of family to encompass individuals who can fill those deep-seated needs
Introduction In this case study, it analyse how the concept of family has changed in the past 20 years as it will be depicting modern family forms and past norms. It is important to look at how families have developed throughout the years up until the 21st century as we compare the two and elaborate on the difference and what makes it so significant. In this case study, it contrast and compare the television series Modern family which is a 21st century concept of family and The Simpsons which was adapted 27 years ago and how things have changed with family dynamics and what is the norm now which was not the norm years ago.
People on the outside of the family need to be mindful of these emotional challenges because they heavily affect the way family members nurture the child and discuss the child with others. When a family member exhibits these negative emotions they need to be shown that it is ok to feel these emotions. c) Needs of the Parents, Siblings and Extended Family According to Carol Gestwicki the needs of the family are intimately related to their cultural background, educational background, religion and profession. It can also be related to the age of the family members and that of the child with the exceptionality, family size and structure.