Blended Family

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A.) Family: Two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Family is a word used often in this video. Family can be made up of a lot of different scenarios. Blood, adoption, or now days it can even be a tightly knit group of friends. Family has become a loose word, one that does not have to mean the people who raised you. Family can mean a bunch of different groups as well. First group is “actual family,” the second group is “friend family,” the third group is “foster family,” and so on and so forth. Family in this video was used to describe the adopted children. The adopted children had a family before they were put up for adoption, then they had a family in the foster system, and lastly the people …show more content…
The foster place had a lot of children in it and they are considered a “family,” to one another until someone comes and takes them away. When the parents brought their adopted child back to their foster parent there was a joy in the air, and they were happy to see her again because she was a part of their family for a while. A blended family is a group of people with different parents, or one different parent. I live in a blended family with my sister being adopted from Guatemala. Also three of my younger siblings are half related to me, and I have an older brother who shares the same father but we have different mothers. In fact there are eight of us, and out of the eight only three share the same set of parents. So, I know all too well about blended families, and can relate to the sisters who are both adopted from China, but are not actually sisters. Growing up in a blended family can be difficult however, because sometimes siblings drift between parents, and sharing different parents means some siblings are only there for a couple days or one day in the week. When I was growing up, every time I left my mom’s house I had to explain to my younger siblings how I had a different father and I had to go visit him for a while. It showed very clearly as the little girls struggled to explain their adoption in the parts of the interviews with them. …show more content…
Some even had extra children in the family. The definition of the American Dream is played in my head while watching the scene of the adopted children getting introduced and picked up by their new mother’s and father’s. The typical “American family,” is father, mother, and child(ren), and that’s exactly what was forming in this video. However, the woman who put the sign up to explain how the abandoned child was now being well taken care of by an American family was not needed. In fact I took it as a slap in the face to China, and she was basically saying China couldn’t accomplish the Nuclear Family so some Americans had to step in and help them out. Though flawed in the way they China created nuclear families, they still, however, manage to succeed in having a father, mother, and child. Though only one child is allowed in China, unlike America, and I believe this is what the sign really hit on. As she was talking to Chinese people, and explaining her family life she mentioned her other daughter, and graciously the Chinese people listened to her, though it is kind of hard not to have the law in the back of the mind as she was talking about her family, I know the law was in the back of my mind through that entire scene. They’re many kinds of nuclear families as well. Some have a lot of kids, and some do not. Some spoil their children (which was a problem in China), and some do not. Nuclear Families come in all different shapes

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