Essays on Family

The Last Born Daughter and the Personality of Dependency The last born in my family is a daughter, with the personality of dependency. As such she usually relies on me for most of all the decisions choices in her life aspects. Also, she likes consulting with the parents for advice on...

Over the years, how mothers and fathers spend their time has changed. Fathers are nowadays doing extensive housework and more child care while moms are being paid to work outside. As such, how adults spend time with their children has changed drastically. However, a new study has shown that the...

While raising kids bi-culturally allows them many positives, this way of bringing them up also subjects them to many issues. Millions of Americans are first or second generation people. Children who are raised by parents that are foreigners often find themselves hanging between two cultures; that of their parents and...

Cultural Hegemony Cultural Hegemony refers to the crucial aspect for creating as well as reproducing social inequalities. It comprises of such taken-for-granted constituents of instructions as alterations in modes of social control as well as the parameter of associations of the authority and the valorization of given forms of dialectal and...

In the ancient world In the ancient world, the family unit consisted of all people who lived under the same household and extended to include slaves as well as relatives within this context. However, the immediate pre-industrial family consisted of married couples and the children who resided with them (Coontz 44)....

In The Family in Question, Diana Gittins starts by noting that functional definitions of the constituents and the roles of a family in the society have dominated most sociological studies of the family. The family forms the most basic unit on which a society is built. Being a basic unit...

Sociology is as an essential aspect in understanding the concept of family, its structure, role, and composition. However, the sociological study of the family requires a clear understanding of family, sociology and the relationship between them. Brinkerhoff, Weitz and Ortega (1) define sociology as the systematic study of social organizations,...

The social media has in the past few years gained popularity in an exponential manner. People are finding themselves on social media every free minute that they have with many people waking up in the morning to check the social media as the first thing and sleeping to the same...

The issue of bullying has gained much attention nationally following the association of teen suicide with cyberbullying and school bullying prevalence. A study by Jankauskiene et al. which involving 1162 pupils from 6th to 11th grade found out that 56.5% of learners were associated with bullying, 16.3% were bullies and...

Happy Endings written by Margaret Atwood discusses the cruel stereotyping of women, the double standards practiced by the community, and the roles of men and women in society. Atwood employs the use of short anecdotes to denote the different possibilities that may arise from a commitment between a man and...

Angelica Pickles Angelica Pickles is an unkind, harsh and selfish kid. She is the eldest cousin to two siblings, Tommy and Dil Pickles. In most cases, Angelica is seen mistreating her cousins and others kids, as well as her friends. She displays the character of a person with low self-control. She...

The Role of Managing Children's Behavior The role of managing children’s behavior is one of the biggest dilemmas encountered by parents today. There are various ways of improving children’s behavior, including positive reinforcement, taking away privileges, time-out, and physical punishment. Physical punishment is a way of disciplining children by causing them...