Family Essays

In the article entitled “Unmarried with Children” the authors present the findings of a study which they spent years interviewing 162 low-income mothers in eight poor neighborhoods in Philadelphia and its suburb, Camden, New Jersey. (Edin and Kefalas, 34). “We spent five years chatting over kitchen tables and on front …

Wings Chips is a story about a father and daughter who are English living in a predominately French town in Canada. If you study and read this story enough you can learn many life lessons from it. The main theme of the story is that even though many people have …

1. The argument between Sly and the hostess demonstrates the position of power between them. The hostess is in a higher social standing than Sly, who is merely a drunken tinker. However, Sly refuses to accept this fact and he argues with the hostess because he feels that as a …

Social referencing is an imperative tool to any infant. Social referencing to an infant is when the infant is “seeking information about an unfamiliar or ambiguous object or event by observing someone else’s expressions and reactions.”(Berger, 2005, 185). These observations are in general acquired from mother, father, or caregiver. An …

Changes in divorce law have generally made it easier and cheaper to end marriages, but this is not necessarily the cause of the rising divorce rate. Legal changes reflect other changes in society, especially changes in attitudes. In particular, sociologists argue that social expectations about marriage have changed. Functionalist sociologists …

According to the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China, in 2010, China’s population was more than 1.34 billion people, an increase of 5.84% in comparison with the year of 2000. However, the figure was lower than its estimation (the officials was given a number of 1.4 billion in …

The novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” isn’t just a young autistic boy’s story. Whilst it does describe the protagonist Christopher Boone’s “reality”, the narrative is much deeper. The issues that surround Christopher are vital to the storyline, providing a complexity that suggests the “The Curious …

The person affects my life the most, and also my only idol, my goal of living is my grandma. In the time when most Asian women did not dare to express themselves, to speak out what was on their mind, my grandmother did. Her rare personality was popular and highly …

A Mother to her Waking Infant was first published in 1790; the poem is narrated by a mother who is focusing her thoughts and words towards her newborn baby. The poem is directed solely at the child of the title, with the mothers words starting as the child awakes, Now …

Over the years, there have been dozens of psychologists who have proposed hundreds of different theories regarding human development. These theories are read by educational professionals, who incorporate the parts of the theories that they believe in, into their own personal philosophy. Developmental theories should help counselors understand potential outlooks …