My Family System Theory Research Paper

I, Mary Ann Holsinger a young Black- African American female, was born in 1993 as a product of an affair. I was born into a family of low class African American citizens, who were caught in between the war on drugs and the war overseas. Growing up I wasn’t always in the care of my biological parents. Since the age of four, I was passed from three different foster care homes that I can recall. The homes included people of caucasian, African American and Asian descent. At the age of eight, I was rejoined with my birth mother when she regained full custody of me and my siblings. Once regaining stability, my two siblings and I moved in with my mother in a rural area in D.C. There we were greeted by my step-father and his five children. Un-knowing …show more content…
After learning of this theory I do believe my family the definition of the theory. The reason I choose the systems theory is because my family to me was built upon one another, one side cannot function without the other. This, in my opinion, is how we understand one another and work together as one. When one person in the home is struggling we all feel the same struggle and try our best to help that person through. Growing up when my parents had a hard time come together and paying for the bills the older children with jobs would help out to make sure that we were able to have shelter and …show more content…
These decisions, rather good or bad all reflect back to what I have seen or experienced at one point in my lifetime. Being a young black African American in a Christian home allowed me to have a strong foundation and great support system to build upon. As a member of a Christian church, they did the best the could with keeping children like my siblings and I off the streets and helped us to make a positive impact in our homes and communities. Over time these members of my church slowly became fictive kin. Once I reached the age of 12, I experience what I like to call my first REAL history class. This class taught me the true beginning of my culture and ancestors. After taking this class and getting a true understand I knew it was time to really be a positive influence and make a great impact on people of my color, culture and social class. On this journey of becoming a positive impact in my community, I was introduced to all different types of people and made connections that I believe are for a lifetime. After hearing their stories about their lives and culture that they had been brought up in, it made me take a step back and look at my own life. I began to put things into a better perspective and realized that just because negative things are going on around me and have been for years that doesn 't have to affect my upbringing in a negative manner. I could find