Tag: Family
A Cross Cultural Perspective of Polygamy
As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same time, exists in all...
The make-up of the family
This essay will begin by describing the three spheres that tie society together. The main institution of society is the family or household which...
Time Management and Family Issues
Upon returning to college, the mature student (any student over the age of 24) soon realizes that their ability to manage time effectively directly...
Would the licensing of parents be morally right and theoretically possible
According to Hugh LaFollette in his essay “Licensing Parents,” it is and would be both right and possible to do so. I will attempt...
Gay Parenting Essay
The conception that lesbians and gay men may be parents is frequently perceived in todays society as impossible or immoral. Gay men and lesbians...
Prejudicial Perceptions Essay
The use of language is an incentive for prejudicial perceptions which bring many issues to the attention of people everywhere. People who do not...
How the segregation & assimilation policies impacted on Aboriginal family
Aboriginal family life has been disrupted and forcibly changed over the last two hundred years, as a result of the many segregation and assimilation...
What makes up a good family
These are the questions that many people in America ask. They battle with these questions everyday when they think about the way their family...
Sociology: The Family
One of the main institutions in society is found within the household and is popularly known as The Family. It is here, in the...
The Main Causes Of Divorce
they depend on for living each other. Nevertheless, some couples are unable to maintain their relationship; therefore they choose divorce, which is one of...
Lesbian and Gay Parenting
Like families headed by heterosexual parents, lesbian and gay parents and their children are a diverse group (Martin, 1993). Unlike heterosexual parents and their...
Sociology: Family Report
Stable, healthy, two-parent families still appear to do the best job of raising kids. But when income and job status are taken into account,...
Social Structure Report
This essay will begin by describing the three spheres that tie society together. The main institution of society is the family or household which...
A Typical 1950s American Family
The wilsons are what you would call a typical 1950s american family. They consist of the father and husband Frank, housewife linda, oldest child...
The Impact of Unwanted Divorce Vs Death of a spouse
When someone is confronted with legal separation from the person to whom they’ve committed their adult life, it may seem as though their whole...
The Ongoing Struggle for a Family
The most important thing in a family is that all the people in it love each other. This excerpt is from a childrens book,...
The Effects Of Divorce On Young Children
The statistics for divorce in the 1990s suggest that nearly sixty percent of marriages end in divorce. Given this startling figure, the assumption can...
Happily Ever After
People say when you marry someone you dont just marry that one person, but you marry that persons whole family. Every family has its...
Archtypical Fathers
An ideal father is one who is both caring and understanding. To fit this mould, one must express these characteristics. The outlook and actions...
The decline of fatherhood is one of the most unexpected, and extraordinary social trends
It is a common belief that "the decline of fatherhood is one of the most basic, unexpected, and extraordinary social trends of our time"...
The Evolution of the Family on Television
Television is not just a form of entertainment, it is also an excellent way to study societys ever-changing families. From the beginning of the...
Divorce: The Effect on the Children
Divorce, once uncommon in our society, is now becoming more and more frequent, disrupting our childrens state of well-being. Some children of divorced families...
Divorce and the Effect on Children Kathryn Hill
In years past, the American Dream for most young girls' is to grow up and be married to Prince Charming and to "Live Happily...
Broken families: I Wish I Knew
Broken families are often hard to live in. Especially divorced ones. Its one thing for your parents to split-up when youre a young child,...
Family Description & Structure
Even though the Agbayani family is of Filipino descent, they can be seen as similar as any other working class nuclear family living in...
Henry David Thoreau’s Quest for Reformation
While strolling through the forests near Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau stumbled across a man and his family. The father, John Field had moved...
On the Incest Taboo
Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web SitesIncest is not such a clear-cut matter as it has been made out to be...
The Effects of Teen Pregnancy on Children
There are many obstacles for children of teenage mothers to face. These children have serious disadvantages in contrast to those children who come from...
Institution of Marriage
For as long as the institution of marriage has been around, so too has the belief that it represents the union of one man...
Resolving family conflict
Families provide people with an atmosphere in which to live, grow, and develop. A family culture is established by the parents and instilled in...
How Scottish families have changed in the last 100 years
Perhaps the area that has changed the most for Scottish women in the last century is the family and the home. In the first...
