All in the Family

the diversity in my family and how it will affect me as a clinician. Family History: My family is the “typical American family”. We represent a melting pot of past cultures. On my mother’s side my family is almost all French and on my father’s side they are predominantly English. Both sides came to America several centuries ago. The culture of my family can really be broken up into my Dad’s side and my Mom’s side of the family. I will first analyze my mother’s side of the family and our…

My family and I consider ourselves to be primarily of Hispanic race and, more specifically, our ethnicity to be Mexican American. My mother’s side of the family is from the city of Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico while my father’s side is from the states of Sinaloa and Sonora in Mexico. So, it’s safe to say my family is very Mexican. Both of my parent where actually born in Mexico but were brought over to the United states as infants. However, if we go back even further three generations before…

United States grow up in an array of family structures. Single-parent families and two-parent families are produced and reproduced through marriage, remarriage, divorce, and cohabitations aside of marriage. Forty percent of all children are born to unmarried mothers (Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2016, para. 7). In fact, single-parent families are the fastest growing family structure. In 2016, 28% of children were living in single-parent families and this number has slowly continued…

It is no secret that families have traditions and customs that are passed from generation to generation. Families have been a crucial part to every person who has ever lived. Not every person has this fantastic, positive, supportive family that is thought about when hearing about the American family, but everyone has been impacted by their family in one way or another. Family has been an idea that essentially shaped America. Immigrants from all over the world flooded into the United States…

international adoption. Almost all under the age of 12. Without international adoption those children would be suffering and have no family. There are millions of children who don’t have the privilege of having a family, but domestic and international adoption can help them get a family. People should be allowed to adopt internationally because there are people all around the world that need families, people shouldn’t be forced to adopt children they don’t want, and families don’t have to be one…

same adverse effects on black communities today. Poverty, health, unemployment, welfare, and lack of education are all issues that have a deep and strong hold in our community. Forty-seven percent of African Americans receive some sort of welfare. African American women are now the fastest growing sector of the U.S. population heading to prison. African American men make up half of all incarcerated individuals. Thirty-three percent of African American children live in…

her three friends Jennifer, Abbie, and Alexis struggle to free their families in death camps, meanwhile their families are going through misery by being slaves for the rich and doing unhealthy activities as well as being thought as animals. 10years ago, Lydia’s family where all kidnapped and transported to South Carolina,where they were all renamed and sold into slavery. Also, when Lydia’s sister was sent to slavery the whole family was split into different boxes and when they got to the…

Meet my family: my dad, mom, half-sister, brother-in-law, half-brother, sister-in-law, niece, future nephew-in-law, great nephew, nephew, niece, step-nephew, and step-niece – Steve, Kathy, Karen, Frank, Brian, D’Anna, Jailen, Travis, Carson, Wyatt, Alyvia, Kolten, and Aleynah. My mom and dad have been married to each other for twenty-five years. My mom was married previously and had two children, Karen and Brian. My sister, Karen, had Jailen at the young age of eighteen before getting married to…

childhood, and all the hardships him and his family faced. This memoir allows us to see the fall of Saigon from Kien’s perspective. A lot of the events in this book are hard to fathom and sometimes hard to read. The family went through a lot more than I can imagine. One thing I can pick out from this Memoir is the family felt a lot of helplessness in many different ways. Along with: fear, courage hope, hopelessness, and many more. The Nguyen family, along with aunts, uncles, cousins, and family…

Luis Ramirez, a young Spanish male, was born and raised in Columbia, South America. At the young age of ten, his family decided to leave their family in Columbia and move to the United States. The family was from the city of Pasto where they had raised two young boys. The family planned to fly into the U.S., but the journey began by their personal van to get to the closest airport. The closest airport was ten hours away, Luis doesn’t remember much of the drive, or the flight for that matter,…