Families In Today's Society

          College is such a stressful, yet exciting time in someone’s life. You make the decision of what you want to do for the rest of your life. You change your mind about five times before you come to a final decision on your major. You get probably the least amount of sleep you have ever gotten before and wonder how you possibly get so much done with so little sleep. Finally, for some of us, college is when you really start to think about the possibility of marriage and starting a family. Once you start to think about this, it brings on a whole other list of stresses in your life. As you enter the dating game, you wonder about how I am going to find someone to date, how do I know if they like me back, what should I do for dates, are we taking things too fast, and the list goes on and on. Today I am going to talk about common mistakes made in dating, as well as social “norms” and how they negatively impact our society’s view of dating. ...

One of the biggest arguments, and most widely talked about topics in today’s society is the difference between men and women. In debates on this topic, you might hear people discussing: which is the superior sex, equal rights between the two, gender roles, and many more different topics. The simple fact is that men and women are different. I mean, look at us, even if you don’t believe we are different on the inside, there is no denying the fact that we are different on the outside. Not to say that one sex is better than the other, but we both have areas in which we naturally excel. Today I wish to discuss gender roles, and how we need to work together on this topic and stop fighting to tear each other down. Out of all the topics I mentioned above, I think the most widely talked about subject is easily gender equality. It is no secret that up until the last century or so it was a very man dominated world. All the political leaders were men, men were the only ones who were allowed to...

              In class this week, we talked a lot about culture. We talked about what exactly the word culture means, as well as different cultures we see today in our society. Until this week, I never realized the power that cultures can have on a family, as well as different forms of culture that we develop within our own families. It is important that we can identify these different cultures within our families. If there are any we don’t want to continue, we need to figure out a way to end them, as well as identify cultures that are good for our families that we want to continue.               In our class someone googled the definition for the word culture, and came up with, “The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.” I find the term “social norms” to be interesting in this situation. There are s...

In class this week, we discussed the structure of the family, and how it can be divided into several systems, and subsystems. We spent a lot of time talking about what different relationships fall into these categories, and how they can affect the families directly. We also learned about different roles and rules that we all form in our families, and how sometimes they are unspoken. In my blog today, I am going to talk about some of these different systems and rules we discussed, and the importance of recognizing these within our own families.           Social scientists have formed a theory called the Family Systems Theory to better help us understand this topic. The Family Systems Theory states that we should all analyze our families, looking at how we interact with each other, how we feel about our family members, and decisions we make based on these feelings. Once we have made the analysis, we will start to realize different systems...