Family Relations

    When it comes to divorce the big reasons for  it are abuse, alcoholism, and abandonment. I would imagine that all of those are related, if you drink a lot it would relate to bad and short temper which would lead to abuse. I think abandonment would be on a class all on it's own and I think that just means that one is absent in the others life. they don't provide support or attention at all which will lead to a divorce. Those are usually common reason for divorce but the frequency of divorce has changed over the years.     Prior to 1969 divorce was rather uncommon and that was mostly due to cultural norms, getting a divorce was not widely accepted. After that divorce started to increase a lot and now recently divorce has decreased but that's mostly due to people getting married less which means there are less marriages to end in divorce anyways. Not only that but divorce is so much easier to obtain then it was in the past. To my s...

     This week we talked about parenting. For starters when we think about parenting we usually think about it being Mom and Dad's job, but when we think about the definition and purposes of parenting we can find that anyone ranging from grandparents to community can parent a child. Parenting a child consists of  teaching a  children, preparing them for society, helping form future generation, and to help increase the chance of success for children out in the real world. In addition to that, children need to develop respect for themselves and others, and need to know how to cooperate and work together with other people towards a common goal. Parenting is a prime way of teaching kids really important value that they should develop , keep, and use in their lives.     So some parenting tips that I got from this class started with not rewarding you kids. Some might think that giving a kid an incentive to do what you want like "hey if you take out the ...