Essays on Relationship

Maria Konnikova in her article of the limits of friendship uses Robin Dunbar into exploring the eponymous number that he established almost through accident. Through Oxford University, in particular, the anthropologist department they were looking into the challenges that were dwelt in realizing the difficulty of why primates devoted most...

The Impact of Same-Sex Couples on Adoption The has been a significant rise in the number of same-sex couples forming their own families by artificial insemination, adoption, and foster care. It has been approximated that there are at least fourteen million minors in the U.S that are living with at least...

Many cultures hold the belief that normative sexual behavior should be heterosexual in nature and any other orientation is construed as deviance. In most cases, gender, sex and sexuality are usually wrongly conflated. The conventional distinctions of gender as male and female have often assumed that males will fundamentally be...

The general trend in the divorce rates over the last 80 years is that there has been a decline in the recent years. Some of the commonly cited explanations for high divorce rate in the U.S. since 1960 include irreconcilable differences, feminism, and finances.             The consequences of the no-fault divorce...

Seventeen-year-old Lyndy whose ethnic identity is British dual heritage is the first born in a family of five children. Two of the siblings aged 13 and eight are her stepbrothers. Lyndy's biological father moved back to African after divorcing with her mother when Lyndy was five years old. Lyndy has...

In comparison to the past generations, adolescents nowadays devote less of their time interrelating with close family members than they spend with friends; in school, in part-time jobs, and so forth. That being said, family and particularly the parent-adolescent relationship, offers opportunities for teenagers or adolescents to acquire and develop...

Interpersonal, emotional, and physical attraction have been widely explained using social psychological theories and how they relate to male/female relationships. In particular, dating sites and other platforms have used the theories to come up with appeals, hobbies, and passions that will bring together couples (Ha, Geertjan and Rutger 1064). Besides,...

Anthropologists play a crucial role in the society. As the bridge between past and present culture, anthropologists facilitate the collection of relevant information, which can be used in the reconstruction of the human processes and thoughts. The establishment of historical relations between different individuals in the society also falls under...

The world of today has many different human cultures that enhance understanding of other cultures from a close and distinct perspective. According to Miner (1960), ethnocentrism is viewing your own culture superior to others. In contrary, cultural relativism is considering a different culture from basing on a someone who practices...

Analysis of Father-Daughter Relationships in Asian American Families Jhumpa Lahiri and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, two female writers of Asian descent, have written works of literature that gave their readers a glimpse of how father-daughter relationships function in Asian American families. Both the short tale Unaccustomed Earth by Lahiri and the poem Mosquitoes...

Peers and their Impact on Personal Development Peers are an integral part of one's social existence and can have an impact on both early development and day-to-day experiences. A very significant and salient peer group is made up of individuals who belong to the same age group, neighborhood, squad, or classroom....

People and certain locations and spaces have a psychological or spiritual connection that never goes away. This is a fact of existence, and I am not an exception. I have been afraid of heights—including the tops of buildings and skyscrapers—since I was a young kid. I have a tendency of...