Narrative Performance Theory Analysis

In the narrative performance theory, there are three levels that can be used to understand how voluntarily child free couples talk about that within their families. The first component of the narrative performance theory is content level. This level of the theory allows us to understand what the story is about, what kinds of stories we can tell, and at what times we can tell those stories. When talking about a voluntarily child free family, they would have to utilize this theory when assessing how to go about talking about their family to other members of their extended family. For example, when the couple goes to family gathering and people ask when they are going to have kids, they could resort to humor to tell a story about how they …show more content…
When the parents first bring up to their children that they are getting a divorce, they should do so in a way that gives the kids enough information to cope, but not too much to overwhelm. For example, if a dad tells his kids that he is leaving their mother because he no longer loves her, they will go on to think that he will eventually stop loving them too. This could have been avoided if the father kept to the tenants of privacy management and went about explaining “why” in a more delicate and thoughtful way and if the parents discussed boundaries of sharing information beforehand. He should have taken into consideration the age of the children and their level of understanding of marriage, as well as the impact that this information would have on …show more content…
When all our grandparents died, we were in and out of funeral homes every other month. We always saw the same people at the funerals and everyone knew what happened the month before, in terms of whose funeral we hosted. When the same people would come to every wake, it became clear to me that with each death in our family, everyone became number then before. I remember towards the 3rd or 4th funeral my mom did not even look alive, her eyes were constantly glazed over and she couldn’t even cry. Same with my dad, I noticed that over the course of 6 months, he went from not crying to doing nothing but crying in private. I also noticed that as time went on the people who were attending every funeral were beginning to try and tell stories about the people rather than give their condolences. Overtime, it was clear that expression and non-expression was a very real progression that my family went through when talking, or not, about