Blended Families have become quite common. A Blended family occurs as a result of a break-up, divorce, separation, and even death. Adoptions, foster families, and same-sex families are also be added to the equation. According to dictionary.com, a blended family is a family made of two parents and their children from previous marriages and/or relationships. The changes are of the traditional family has great impacts on the need for cultural and sensitivity trainings to gain an understanding of the new Blended Family. In order to work effectively with extremely diverse families and their infants and toddlers, it is helpful to understand some of the issues that may be related to family structure, Wither and Petersen (2010). They also added that there are so many variations to the American family, and the issues surrounding them are so…
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Hi Paige, thank you for sharing your family experiences regarding your step mother and her step kids with the rest of the class. I give your aunt a lot of dignity and credit for her unconditional love with the kids. I wish their where more parents in the world such as your aunt who are loving and caring no matter whether the children are biological or not in any type of relationship. In my opinion, I do believe age plays an important role as to how it affects the step parent-child relationship in the family. What are your thoughts on this, Paige? From reading the chapter, step parents and step children have a more difficult time to be able to form close relationships, bonding and survival with one another. This is known as the "attachment theory," when it comes to diversity in step families. With that said, could this theory be the cause for the lack of or less likelihood of having a close relationship between parent and child? It seems that the first year is the most important in order to have or create any attachments whatsoever to a parent-child relationship. What is your input or this? I also believe that anyone who wants to have a step family relationship it is indeed possible. However, it does require a lot of time, patience and effort to maintaining…
Both Jane and John are working full time during the days, while Tom is responsible for household chores and is searching and applying to get into med school. They can be considered to be at the working middle class in the socioeconomic scale. The family is very…
This family comes from a religious family that has had the same religion for four generations now and the family holds strong to the beliefs of the importance of family and religion. The father in the family comes from a small household of parents and three children and the wife comes from a home where foster care had taken place for fourteen children throughout her childhood. Now this family has two children and the husband and wife. Family history shows no sign of significant health problems with the exception of the grandmother in the husband side of being obese.…
Blended family is a new forms of family units. Blended family means that the children in the family aren’t either father or mother biologically son. Their lifestyles are special from other normal family. Between the stepfather or stepmother and stepson or stepdaughters always occurs comflict. Stepfather or stepmother need to keep carefully the relationship between stepmother or stepfather and stepson or stepdaughter. This problem always causes the second divorce. In this case, many children are hurted by parents. I think it is not a good forms of family units, because it may destroy the future of children. Thus, we have to escape emerging this kind of…
A family nursing assessment was done on the Lois G. family during three nursing visits over a period of one month. The family lives at 1234 Main St. and their home phone number is 314-987-6543. This is a lower- middle class (Friedman, Bowden & Jones E.G., 2003), African American, Baptist, single-parent, career, divorced family that is child-oriented and not geographically mobile. Lois is 45 and has three children, Carmen, a 16 year old girl, Emille and Camille, twin 9 year old girls. The mother is the sole custodial parent of the oldest child. Carmen has minimal contact with her father,…
John Diedrich Spreckels was born on August 16th, 1853 in Charleston, South Carolina to Claus Spreckels and Anna Christina Mangels. He was the oldest of five children. The family moved to New York and then to San Francisco where he grew up. He studied at Oakland College and then in Hanover, Germany, where he studied chemistry and mechanical engineering in the Polytechnic College until 1872. In 1876 he went to the Hawaiian Islands, where he worked for his father's sugar business, Spreckels Sugar Company. In October 1877, he married Lillie Siebein in Hoboken, New Jersey, and together they had four children: Grace, Lillie, John, and Claus. They first lived in the Kingdom of Hawaii and then in San Francisco.…
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 of becoming a blended family, most of them did not talk to one another about certain parenting issues such as discipline and rules. Most of the participants also did not discuss how they would handle this change for the children involved in the two families that were blending. Cartwright says that these findings supported earlier research that suggested that couples who are blending their families often avoid talking about difficult issues so as to avoid conflict.…
"Separation can challenge at the occasions under the most neighborly of conditions, and blessings now and then include another layer of disappointment - for youthful and old. Edwin Lyngar in Reno, Nev., has two children from his first marriage. From his second he has two more children and one stepson. Normally, he and his ex arrange presents for their two, however he reviews an unapproved electric piano one year when his girl, now 13, was around 5.....Whether present goofs are inadvertent or deliberately, a touch of arranging can go far" (Reno Newspaper Diary). This article portrays the difficulties confronted by separated families over purchasing Christmas presents for their…
Blended families, also known as stepfamilies, are more familiar now than ever. Statistics show that 65% of remarriages include children from previous relationships. When families blend to create stepfamilies, things rarely progress as smoothly as planned. Some children might resist the many changes they have to face, while parents might become frustrated or disappointed when their new family doesn’t function the way they want to or like their previous family did. The three most important things blended families need to do are have appropriate discipline, overcome their difficulties, and spend quality time with each other.…
So, couple has sufficient time to accommodate and understand each other likes and dislikes. There is a set of rules which guide each member to live accordingly. In the same way, child also learns all these rules and internalizes them. On the contrary, in a blended family spouse (s) have already child/ children. In this way, they have not honey moon time which they are enjoying in the first marriage. There is lack of understanding. For children, there is also difficulty to understand stepsiblings and stepparent. In this grim situation, rivalries are common among the family members. Unlike rivalries in biological family, these rivalries end in unwanted results which are the basic ingredients of divorce in a blended family. Furthermore, our society is also not supporting these kinds of families. People are creating problem by telling fairy tales to the stepchildren about the evils of stepparent and vice versa. While telling, they have not these sense that it will create problem for them in the…
This article talks about the way in which and the extent to which lesbians conduct their relationships in an egalitarian manner battling power imbalances and other inequalities that come their way. The author has conducted a study on lesbian relationships where interviews were conducted and information was gathered on the positive and negative aspects of their experiences. Lesbian women focus on equality be it economic power, the domestic sphere, emotional labour and career opportunities. The article highlights the absence of gender scripts that doesn’t restrict either partner from being who they are and do what they like. Au contraire, the existence of these gender scripts are the very reason heterosexual relationships become problematic and throws restrictions on women causing them to fall into prescribed roles. It illustrates clear differential features between heterosexual and homosexual relationships using experiences of women who have been in relationships with both men and women. It goes on to talk about the importance of economic independence and how lesbians recognize that their lifestyle requires them to be self-sufficient and makes financial dependency or dependency of any kind undesirable. This belief is extended towards unilateral house ownership, which is another source of a major power imbalance. Women feel more secure when they have their own apartment and their independence intact i.e. the choice to walk out of the relationship whenever you can. It leaves no room for dependency and makes them more self-reliant. The author also tries to demonstrate how sexuality itself fuels the ability of women to achieve success in their work sphere and to do so whilst managing a relationship and navigating through structural inequalities of power and to some extent, domination.…
FACES is a scale that is used to evaluate families and the structure of it. “This model bridges family theory, research, and practice” (Braithwaite, Bylund, Galvin p 32). There are two categories that make up this scale; cohesion and adaptability. This test can be used as a tool to help families see where their strengths and weaknesses are. It could be a good tool to use before getting married to see where the two families are different or similar. The purpose of this paper is to discuss in more detail what FACES is and the results of my family. I will talk about our results and why I think they ended up like that.…
Besides, children may feel that their biological parent should spend more time with them or give more love and care than non-biological children. This feeling probably may cause their psychological pressure and inequality. The other problems such as sibling rivalry, identity confusion, scheduling conflicts and so on still happen to the blended family. Conflicting family values and responsibilities of each family member with regards to daily chores, appropriate behavior, and other expectations. I think that the key to overcoming these types of problems is good communication and trust. After all, communication is the best policy. Trying to understand each other just could have a peaceful and mirthful…