Religious Development Theory

Two weeks before they married, Connye, having gotten pregnant by another boy, gave birth to a baby girl name Cydne Rae. Chuck and Connye lived with his parents while he continued to attend St. Louis University. When Chuck’s mother, Lizzie, got tuberculosis, the baby was sent out to California to live with her grandmother, Rachel. After 3 ½ years of college, and still suffering from partially being paralyzed, Chuck graduated. He and Connye immediately moved to Los Angeles where he worked in banking eventually owning a Ford Dealership.

She was the youngest of all five of her siblings. Her parents were Captain Stephen Barton and Sarah Stone Barton. Clara had been homeschooled since she was four years old, and she was taught mostly by her siblings. When she turned eleven years old, one of her brothers, David, got extremely sick. Clara was told to nurse him back to health, which took two years.

Taylor did not want to end up becoming a mother, which is something people say is an inevitable part of a woman’s life. Although she did not want motherhood, a child was still given to her anyway. And she learned to love that child unconditionally. Even though the circumstances are non traditional, Taylor, Turtle, Lou Ann and Dwayne Ray become a real family and the two women live through the burdens of motherhood together even though it was something Taylor never wanted. Furthermore, Taylor had never really loved anyone romantically before Estevan.

When I fell in love with Anka after a couple months of hanging out after Murky Waters shows, I knew I wanted to support her and Antonia for the rest of my life. I was broke, an alcoholic, and had no idea how to raise a family, so I forced myself to figure it out and pretend that I had everything under control. Anka, the band, Antonia, and I

They were engaged for seven years before they got married. And they’re marriage ended pretty quickly as well. According to a lot of baby boomers and beyond, millennials don’t date. We hook up.

(O’Connor 3) But even in this statement, one can see that her values are higher than those of the people who surround her. Despite her nihilism and self-proclaimed disdain for religion, through her lack of affectation and the rawness of her behavior, she is closer to God than those who only claimed to be Christians. Hulga lived most of her life involuntarily seeking the things she did not have. Her fashion style was childish, as she was trying to recapture somehow a childhood that she did not have - “Here she went about all day in a six-year-old skirt and a yellow sweat shirt with a faded cowboy on a horse embossed on it.”

Until his thirtieth year, Nilus (whose baptismal name was Nicholas) was fairly lukewarm about his religion, and lived a licentious youth. It is believed that he lived with a woman whom he was not married to, that bore him a daughter. His conversion came when his daughter and her mother died from illness. From then, he became a hermit, trying to mimic early Church Fathers. Eventually, after living at several

Xu Chong a very independent and intelligent woman who wants to pursue her life in the practice of Buddhism. Xu Chong's Father and her argue how she should not be forced to marry someone because “[her] mind is concentrated on the work of religion” saying how she simply refuses to get married because she is focused on the practice of Buddhism (Baochang). At this time in day girls did not have as much power as men. Her family is very high in social status, which leads to stricter rules and how she should act. This didn't stop her from speaking up for herself in front of her parents'.

Lady Macbeth does not submit to her husband, which is one of the main roles of an Elizabethan woman. She has not borne any children, and if she did, she did not try as much as a typical Elizabethan woman. Lady Macbeth also tries to deceive others. She calls on evil spirits, she should be more of a religious woman if she was following the stereotype.

(Mark 11:13- 22) She messed up her hope Hope is never in the past but the future, it's always forward not backwards and Lot’s wife did not appreciate that, “But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt” (Genesis 19: 26). Her looking back was not just physical but emotional and mental for she looked longingly, wistfully in the wrong direction. Like so many today in church who are doing the same thing.

He has been placed in a private foster family agency’s (FFA) volunteer foster family home. His mother, Ms. C., is a 28-year-old woman who is currently living at a residential drug program for treatment of her addiction to methamphetamine. Ms. C. self-identifies as Catholic. Alejandro’s father, reportedly, has not dealt with Alejandro since after his birth.

Judy Schoettle was born in 9/7/1946 in Marion, Ohio. Judy 's mother was an alcoholic. She was the only child for nine years and was spoiled until her siblings were born. Judy is the oldest of four siblings, two brothers and one sister. Ricky (60), who lives in Flordia, is retired from the Army.

Rex David Thomas most likely known as Dave Thomas, was born July 12, 1932 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was born to adoption and never knew his birth mother. At 6 months old Thomas was adopted by a couple from Kalamazoo, Michigan, but his adoptive mother passed away when he was only 5 years old. And by age 10 he had lost 2 stepmothers. While he was in Maine he spent his summers with his adoptive grandmother, one of his closest relatives, as well as one of his biggest influences.

The person I interviewed is Estrella Heredia. She is the daughter of Gabriela and Manuel. Estrella lives with her father as well as her grandmother, her father’s mother. Also living with them is Estrella’s half-brother, Emmanuel, who is 6 years old and Estrella’s sister, Yari, who is 17 years old. Estrella’s mom does not live with them because in 2003, her and Estrella’s father got divorced.

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the main character Jeannette goes through a collision of culture by the way her parents disagree about their religious beliefs. The difference between the two parents are shown when Jeannette says “Church was particularly excruciating when Dad came along. Dad had been raised a Baptist, but he didn’t like religion and didn’t believe in God. He believed in science and reason, he said, not superstition and voodoo. But Mom had refused to have children unless Dad agreed to raise them as Catholics and to attend church himself on holy days of obligation”.