Lifespan Development in the Family
Family has been an important keystone throughout the millennia. Many years before our time, family was everything. Almost always, the younger generation would follow in the footsteps of the elder. Careers, knowledge, world views, and other familial values passed from parents to their children who could only hope to preserve those family traditions through their own future families. Connecting with current times, the youth of our generation have a different struggle—their health and lifespans. Today, children must struggle not with preserving their family name, but with preserving their health against the rampant obesity of traditional family life. There are many choices families help influence, but there …show more content…
Images are bombarded in to minds of young ones of muscular men who have no problems or of skinny television actors. The most prevalent ads explain how to “get ripped in 15 days!” and this does nothing but degrade the society of adolescents whom have had no luck with getting fit. Suddenly those ads are not as appealing and can scar those who see them to do the opposite and further their obesity in hopes they can drown out the sorrow with calories. These episodes of depression can lead to serious side effects to their bodies and in some other cases to their family, increasing everyone’s caloric intake in extreme cases. There is a friend’s family in Arizona that experienced an episode such as this. The father of this family was in the military and had to go due to his work, away from his family. For a year and a half, he was gone and this had a toll on those he left behind. The mother stopped cooking and just picked up fast food. Eventually when the soldier returned his family had put on some weight. Fast forward 15 years and that family is still suffering from the ramifications of the habit of eating and over eating has caused. Not only do they see themselves differently but they are depressed because of it. That was the case until the family decided it was time to
Family has been an important keystone throughout the millennia. Many years before our time, family was everything. Almost always, the younger generation would follow in the footsteps of the elder. Careers, knowledge, world views, and other familial values passed from parents to their children who could only hope to preserve those family traditions through their own future families. Connecting with current times, the youth of our generation have a different struggle—their health and lifespans. Today, children must struggle not with preserving their family name, but with preserving their health against the rampant obesity of traditional family life. There are many choices families help influence, but there …show more content…
Images are bombarded in to minds of young ones of muscular men who have no problems or of skinny television actors. The most prevalent ads explain how to “get ripped in 15 days!” and this does nothing but degrade the society of adolescents whom have had no luck with getting fit. Suddenly those ads are not as appealing and can scar those who see them to do the opposite and further their obesity in hopes they can drown out the sorrow with calories. These episodes of depression can lead to serious side effects to their bodies and in some other cases to their family, increasing everyone’s caloric intake in extreme cases. There is a friend’s family in Arizona that experienced an episode such as this. The father of this family was in the military and had to go due to his work, away from his family. For a year and a half, he was gone and this had a toll on those he left behind. The mother stopped cooking and just picked up fast food. Eventually when the soldier returned his family had put on some weight. Fast forward 15 years and that family is still suffering from the ramifications of the habit of eating and over eating has caused. Not only do they see themselves differently but they are depressed because of it. That was the case until the family decided it was time to