My Family Essay

I believe in family values. We never realize how important family is or how much our family is willing to do to help each other out until something bad happens. Unfortunately, it was way too late when my family and I realized the importance of having a good relationship with each other. I grew up in a home with six brothers and two sisters. I was never really interested in hanging out with my brothers because they did not like the same things I did. My oldest sister Estela is 14 years older…

Throughout time, families have experienced several different transformations in family roles, relationships, and communication style. Families can be challenged with a drastic shift in members and relationships. For example, many families have faced one or maybe multiple divorces and a remarriages, stepparents and/or siblings, members who have been ostracized or cut off, and overall tension between members of the family. I am fortunate enough to say that I have not experienced any of these…

In my family, there is a substance that is frequently used to subside ill feelings. Though the substance is one of the poorest ways to deal with emotions, it has become a tradition to use it. Studies have exhibited genetics as a role in alcoholism, almost forcing it as a tradition upon my family. Social factors also are behind this disease that can cripple lives. When people ask who is a part of my family, I never know how to answer. The problem when genetics play a role, is that half of mine…

quote as if my sex role was another rule that I was expected to obey by. My parents have and continue to demonstrate “traditional value” roles. Traditional values are defined in my family as, men are financial supporters and protector of the family and the women are stay at home mom’s and wives. My father worked long hours to help provide my family financially. My mother worked at a preschool so she would be able to see us as well as teach us herself. The children were seen as more of my…

Jake is a part of many systems. Jake’s immediate family consists of his wife Sheri and their two sons Myles and Levi. Jake’s parents are deceased, and Sheri’s mother is not very supportive also, she disapproves of her marriage to Jake. Jake grew up in a traditional Caucasian family and has one sister who lives in London. Jake and Sheri have a couple of friends but have become isolated from their social support system. Jake and Sheri identify as Jewish and attend a local synagogue on major…

Today my family faces a number of health issues, mainly as a result of poor diet, lack of exercise and lifestyle choices, but also genetics play a big role in my family’s healthy life. The first one in my family who I’ve known, who got diagnosed with cancer in 2007, was my great grandma, she barely took care of herself, as in poor diet, but did survive a high risk surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and mastectomy on her left breast. My other grandma wasn’t diagnosed with cancer but the doctors did…

the time in my whole life. He was my cousin, we met each other when we were thirteen years old at which year we also engaged. Our marriage lives were great, he was gentle and caring. He did not give up on me, even I was almost die at the end of my life. He was such a good husband compared to other men at that period of time. We had one daughter and one son lived together. Unfortunately, because of some money issues, my husband and I escaped away home, since then, I had never seen my children…

Styles In our family, it was difficult to communicate. Many negative things were not communicated. As children, we could never complain, be disrespectful, and we were expected to be mindful of our elders. In our family, good and happy feelings were communicated. Bad and negative feeling weren’t communicated as often. This was mostly because that was the type of environment my father had set up. Due to these unrealistic expectations, we could not have a serious conversation with my father. It…

Family plays a big role in determining how you manage resources, wants and needs. As my ecomap started to come together, which included the family that most affects me, there were lot resources and also demands that everyone has and needs. Before all of the children of the household moved off to college, my household consisted of my mother, father, sister, bother, and grandmother. We all have demands and most of us have similar resources. On a scale of 1-10 my family’s resource and demands…

with my parents and five siblings. My mother’s name are Sharon Bailey and my father’s name is Everald Bailey. I have one brother and four sisters; from oldest to youngest their name is Lakisha Bailey, Angeleta Bailey, Sacha Bailey and Shanel Bailey and my brother’s name is Christopher Bailey. Other members such as aunts and uncle lives in Jamaica, New Jersey and New York. The health related changes that my family faced most recently is my father’s father passing away on October 10, 2015 and my…