Family Context: The Ross Family

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Family Context
The Ross family consists of two parents Mr. and Mrs. Ross and three children, Billy, Angela, and Blake. The Ross family is a white middle-class family. They identify as having mostly German heritage but display no strong ethnic ties. The family indicated that they have never experienced discrimination or oppression of any kind. The social worker observed that the father sat at the head of the table opposite of the social worker. Mrs. Ross sat to his right next to her daughter Angela and the two boys sat across the table, opposite the women. All the members of the family are heterosexual. Bill Ross is currently employed through his own excavation company. Mrs. Ross is also employed by a plastic surgeon, but only part time. She

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