Family

Before my parents immigrated to the United States, they lived an unforgettable life filled with hardships. My dad was a drug addict. My mom decided to care only for my dad so she cut her relationship with her own family. I remember the stories my mom would tell me comparing her old life to her new life in the United States. She would always tell my sister and me to not be like her and my dad because it affects a person in the long run. My mother told me that one day she caught my dad under the…

Family Essay Family life in America has been heavily impacted by the use of technology. When technology first began to appear in American family households, it was usually just about one television that was kept in the sitting/living room, now it appears all throughout the house. The technology American families are using ranges all the way from stationary devices to handheld devices including, televisions, cell phones, iPads, iPods, video game consoles, and much more. It is believed by many…

The diagnosis of childhood cancer effects the family in several ways. There is a shift in family roles and family functioning, added family stressors, changes in marital quality (Long & Marsland, 2011). Two theories that will be applied in this section are family stress theory and family systems theory. With all the changes that happen during the diagnosis, treatment, and recovery/ or coping process of childhood cancer the family’s equilibrium is disrupted. This is the family’s natural urge to…

Approaches to Family Nursing Assessment The components of family nursing includes an evaluation of family as context, family as client, family as system, and family as a component of society. It is important to keep these four perspective in mind when working to families because it will facilities in the accuracy of the nursing assessment and intervention (Kaakine et al., 2015). Furthermore, a comprehension of all four approaches will lead to better patient and family outcomes. In this…

Family Decline The lack of a proper family construct is currently said to be the cause of “decline” in domestic relationships across America. Dr. Janet Z. Geile focuses on three perspectives of family decline, this paper will focus on the conservative model. My own experiences in life more closely correlate with this model. Through my life and discovery through research, the conservative view on family decline is one way to see family decline. This is observed through an abandonment of religion…

Blended family occurs when two completely different families come together to make one whole family. This is the result of two sole parents remarrying one another. It is stated that blended families are pretty common in Australia about 91,000 blended families in 2009-2010. In this article, it describes how complicating and the impacts to individuals including children and parents when they combine with another family to become a blended family. Firstly, as blended family, it is quite easy for…

(2013) identify three areas of challenges for military families which are risk, mobility and separation. Military members are frequently moving or what is commonly referred to as posted in order to meet operational demands without any input or choice about where they will be relocated or knowledge of how long the posting will be. A posting results in a family having to leave behind familial and friend support. Deployments mean that families are separated and worried about the risks associated…

Family, it means something different to everyone. Sometimes our family is related by blood, other times they’re not. Sometimes we love our family, sometimes we can’t stand them. Everyone defines who and what family is differently, because of this it’s difficult to pinpoint a single definition for it. In order to prevent providing a narrow definition Henslin explains that “family consists of people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption (Henslin, 2015, p. 368). Just like…

Our definitions of both family and community are continually changing and continuing to be challenged. While politicians argue about the demise of the “traditional” family, our descriptions of family are broadening to include families that include non-married cohabitating couples, same-sex partnerships and marriage as well as single parent families and step parents. Our definitions of community also continue to change with the emergence of social media apps such as Facebook and Twitter and…

concept that defines how a family functions. It is also called adaptability and it focuses on how family systems manage stability and change. This concept is defined as “the amount of change in family’s leadership, role relationships, and relationship rules” (Olson, 2000, p.147). There is a scale for adaptability with four levels that are rigid, structured, flexible, and chaotic. The level of flexibility is a great stance for my family. While growing up, I watched my family dynamic change over…