Family Essays

Introduction From the perspective of the reader, Salman Rushdie is infamous for having written The Satanic Verses. Among the literary critics, however, the author is perhaps most famous for writing Midnight’s Children. Indeed, much of Rushdie criticism is centered upon this postcolonial, and some would stress, postmodern work. Influenced by …

Abstract The paper examines the parallel development of marriage and gay issues converging on contentious controversy surrounding gay marriage. The author contends that marriage and gay issues are two different things with different histories though converging on the question of human relationships, specifically same sex unions or relationships. The article …

            Gay marriage is also known as same sex marriage or a marriage between two people of the same sex. In the United States the issue has already become a political thing with a social movement emerging that was meant to fight for their rights.  This started in the 1970s …

In Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje masks the serious side of the family history with comedy. This approach is very useful because it lets all the readers take all the events which happened in the life of the family with a bit of humor and may be get a …

This essay aims to present an analysis of the parental role, by addressing the following subtopics and showing how they are all interrelated:  The development of parenting skills, parental values and attitudes which accompany stages in the development of the child, methods of effective guidance, role of discipline (comparing and …

Most societies generally consider family as the smallest unit of society. That is, a family is a composition of individuals bound together by affection, affinity, blood, and marriage. When we think of a family, the idea of husband and wife and their children usually comes to mind. However, the definition …

  Introduction             Although most people have a strong opinion about marriage, no one seems to be quite sure what marriage exactly is. In modern times, human beings have developed as many ways of living together in a union as they have developed new languages. Different cultures also have very …

Opening Sentence: The roles of mothers are sacred and significant in childbearing, nurturing and taking care of their children. The challenge of raising decent children solely lies in their hands owing to the fact that most families of today remains to be patriarchal. Meaning, the traditional standards of family set-ups …

            The idea of a soul-mate has ever been adhered to and contemplated by many young people of today both in getting into relationships and in deciding to marry somebody.  Thus, people come in and out of relationships in search for their soul-mates – becoming involved with a partner that …

     The authors of Team-Spirited Parenting: 8 Essential Principles for Parenting Success, Darlene Powell-Hopson and husband Derek Hopson are a husband-wife team who has dedicated much of their attention helping parents create a positive environment for their children through an effective 8 step process through what the authors describe as …