Full House is a TV show focused on an immediate family who experienced a tragic event; the mother dies. The couple had three daughters together, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle. After their mother passed away, the father, Danny Tanner, had two people move in with him, his brother-in-law, Jesse, and his friend, Joey. Throughout this paper, when I refer to “family” I will be speaking of Danny, his three daughters, Jesse, and Joey. As we explore deeper into this family relation, we can identify and describe the family’s behavior with multiple theories.
First of all, this particular family displays the utmost amount of commitment to one another. Commitment is just one of six attributes to the Family Strengths Theory (Vaterlaus 2015). After Danny’s wife dies, not only one person, but two, move in with him to help him cope …show more content…
This theory suggests that families go through distinct stages over time, with each stage having its own set of tasks, roles, and responsibilities (Seccombe, 2012). It accounts for normative and non-normative events. Some normative events in life include getting married, having children, experiencing the preschool years, experiencing school-age years, living with teenagers, launching your children into adulthood, being a middle-aged parent, and aging (Seccombe, 2012). Although the Tanner family experienced a non-normative event when the mother unfortunately passed away in a car accident, they have progressed through their lifespan with a typically normative lifestyle. During the TV show, viewers see all three daughters mature from their preschool and grade-school years all the way to becoming teenagers and young women. All while the girls are aging, their middle-aged father is undergoing living with the teenagers and launching them into adulthood. This theory is applicable to any and every member of the family at some point in
First of all, this particular family displays the utmost amount of commitment to one another. Commitment is just one of six attributes to the Family Strengths Theory (Vaterlaus 2015). After Danny’s wife dies, not only one person, but two, move in with him to help him cope …show more content…
This theory suggests that families go through distinct stages over time, with each stage having its own set of tasks, roles, and responsibilities (Seccombe, 2012). It accounts for normative and non-normative events. Some normative events in life include getting married, having children, experiencing the preschool years, experiencing school-age years, living with teenagers, launching your children into adulthood, being a middle-aged parent, and aging (Seccombe, 2012). Although the Tanner family experienced a non-normative event when the mother unfortunately passed away in a car accident, they have progressed through their lifespan with a typically normative lifestyle. During the TV show, viewers see all three daughters mature from their preschool and grade-school years all the way to becoming teenagers and young women. All while the girls are aging, their middle-aged father is undergoing living with the teenagers and launching them into adulthood. This theory is applicable to any and every member of the family at some point in