Marcia's Foreclosure Theory

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When we went over the meaning of the Marcia status’s in class I Knew immediately, that my identity as an adolescent was identity foreclosure. The reason why I say that I was foreclosure, is because I assumed a lot of things like political and religious ideology from my parents. When I was younger I just went with what my parents believed in because it was just natural. I believe that I did not fully explore different Ideologies religiously until I moved out and got married, that drastically changes things.
According to Marcia’s theory I feel like I was confusion/diffusion but I did what my parents told me to (Berger, 2011, pg434). When I was younger I did not really have a care about anything as long as my parents were not mad at me, and I

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