Kinship

A person’s position within the Kinship system is what dictates their relationships and obligations with their society and their universe. The Kinship system is a tight system where an individual has more than two parents, four grandparents and numerous uncles, aunties and other relatives who may or may not be related by blood. This system ensures that all Indigenous Australian people are cared for. The first level on Kinship is moiety; essentially meaning two halves of a whole…

This week’s topics cover Kinship and Marriage. Kinship is the blood relationship between people. Marriage is the union between man and women as partners in a relationship. The two films that were assigned are “Life, Above All”, directed by Oliver Schmitz and “Monsoon Wedding,” directed by Mira Nair. Both films tied into this week’s topics and also had similarities between them. To start off, the first film “Life, Above All” tells the story of a South African girl named Chanda. Chanda is a…

To look at the difference in the outcome of children placed in kinship care and foster care this will be completed as a longitudinal study. A longitudinal study will look at trends that may occur over years within children who are in out of home placement. The purpose of this paper is to see if the practice of placing children in out of home care into kinship care promotes the cycle of poverty. This study is to explore the relationship between children placed in out of home care and the…

Final Exam How does the concept of ethnocentrism interfere with cultural pluralism? How do these concepts help or hinder the issues globally. Ethnocentrism is one of the main causes of division in race, creed and religion. These are learned behaviors because when we are children we may notice differences in color, race or language, but we are not born bias either way. Stereotyping, categorizing, generalizations and accusations affect us worldwide even within our own races. Cultural…

to Anne Strozier (2007), “Kinship care is defined as the full time care, nurturing and protection of children by relatives or any adult who has a kinship bond with the children” (p. 226) and while kinship care can be between any related adult and child it is often grandparents that take over the care of a grandchild when the parent is not able to. According to a study conducted in Florida by collecting information from Kinship Care Warmline, nearly 60% of the kinship caregivers were…

It is believed that the Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for the past 50,000 to 120,000 years ago. The Aboriginal people were semi nomadic and lived off natural resources. They lived in groups or families and lived under their kinship system. Their kinship system defined who they were as an individual and who they were as a group. The system told them how to act and behave and the responsibilities they held. Men and women each played a different part in their family but all Aboriginal…

In my kinship network I have nineteen people including myself. This includes both sets of my grandparents, my parents, step dad, my uncles, all four of my first cousins and my brother. Within my kinship I have my immediate family. I would consider my immediate family to be my mom, my step dad, my brother and me. I have chosen this to be my immediate family for a few different reasons. These people meet all six requirements in order to fit the definition of family. The people who I have named to…

Elements of Kinship and Relatedness Before this course, I never gave much thought about kinship or relatedness. My, somewhat ignorant, viewpoint, was that relatedness stemmed from a combination of affinal and consanguineal ties. Now that I have looked more in depth at multiple societies, and given more thought over my own, I believe relatedness is completely cultural and relies on a hybrid of marital relations, shared living spaces, continuing contact and interaction, and social constructs in…

Family Functioning Kinship caregiver health (physical, mental and emotional of each kin caregiver Ms. Norman stated that she has no health issues nor does she take any medications. She stated that her last checkup was over a year ago. Ms. Norman reported no other health, emotional or mental health issues and stated that she has no disabilities that will prevent her from caring for the children. This interviewer indicated that on a previous home study she was reported to having bipolar. Ms.…

1. Describe and discuss some ways in which fictive kinship and suzerain covenants inform our understanding of God's covenants with us. Fictive kinship helps inform our understanding of God’s covenant with us because of its definition. A fictive kinship is when someone who is not related by blood takes a person in as their family even though they are not blood (p 70-71). This is what God did to us. He took us into his family even though we are not blood because of his love for us. A suzerain…