Social Pressures Affect The Family In The Bahamas

Register to read the introduction… The extended family is a family that includes in one household grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, and or a nuclear family all living together. In other words, several generations that lives together within a single household. A single parent family is a family that consist of one parent and who has most of the day to day responsibilities in the raising of the child or children, which would categorize them as the dominant caregiver. The dominant caregiver is the parent in whom the children have residency with majority of the time; if the parents are separated or divorced children live with their custodial parent and have visitation with their noncustodial parent. A sibling family consists of an older or older siblings and smaller siblings. The eldest sibling would be the caregiver of the family and would be in charge of the younger siblings in the household. As you can see there are many different family types and these were just a name of few that exist here in the …show more content…
There are many social pressures that affect today's family, not only in the Bahamas, but also all over the world. Some of these pressures are: unemployment, lack of finance, and alcoholism just to name a few. Social pressures such as domestic violence and substance abuse have resulted in an increased crime rate in the Bahamas. Money has been a primary source of survival for the family for a very long time. It is a fact that while there are some families that rake in a large amount of income there are those that have very little money. The most efficient way to obtain money is to get a job. However there are some people who want to work but can't find a job, thus resulting in the problem of unemployment. As you can imagine life is very difficult for the unemployed, especially if they have a family to take care of. Being an unemployed parent is even more difficult than being an unemployed person without a family. The parent is faced with the task of feeding, clothing, and sheltering his/her family. This can only be achieved by having money. They receive bills that they know they can't pay so they just let them pile up all the time promising to pay them. Finally it becomes so bad that the bank seizes everything that wasn't paid for out of pocket. That includes the house, furniture and car or