My Kinship Network Analysis

In my kinship network I have nineteen people including myself. This includes both sets of my grandparents, my parents, step dad, my uncles, all four of my first cousins and my brother. Within my kinship I have my immediate family. I would consider my immediate family to be my mom, my step dad, my brother and me. I have chosen this to be my immediate family for a few different reasons. These people meet all six requirements in order to fit the definition of family. The people who I have named to be in my immediate family, is a group of people who are permanent and who I lived with full time. Jason Traviss is my step dad who is my relative by marriage. Both him and my mother take care of my brother and I. Although my dad is my blood relative …show more content…
Extended family is defined as living in a household with 3 or more generations. When I was younger my mom moved back home after a breakup with a current boyfriend. I was about five years old at the time we moved in with my grandparents. This would have been considered an extended family household due to the fact that my mother, her parents and I were all living under the same roof. This situation was temporary and only lasted about a year. I am glad I was able to live in an extended family and it was not as crowded as one would think. My mom and I had the upstairs bedrooms and bathroom, while the kitchen and living space was shared on the main floor. My grandparents had their rooms in the basement, which had a bathroom as …show more content…
My step dad had a previous marriage that ended soon before he met my mom. My mom also had gone through a divorce years back with my biological father. Within my kinship network, divorce is also seen a few more times, between my mother 's brother and his wife and my dad 's brother and his wife. It is seen again between my father 's parents, having ended their marriage about ten years ago. All marriages are different and all marriages end for different reasons. However, there are a few main factors that contribute to the end of marriages. I believe that the main factor for divorce is getting married too young. Many people, in their early age, still have a lot of things not yet figured out. Finances are a big one, that many people do not take into consideration before getting married. They do not realize that instead of providing for one it is now two. Adultery is another factor, which also helped put an end to my step dad 's previous relationship. His wife at the time was not faithful. Sociologists believe that the four main causes for divorce are stress, fading of romance, changing role of women and sexual permissiveness.
With Divorce comes consequences, some negative and some positive. One negative consequence that I have become aware of is loss of possessions through a divorce. My mom is always talking about how she use to have something really valuable but lost it in her divorce. A positive effect of ending a marriage