Its Family Overrated (FGCU- Besy)

8. September 2009 by student.

Before one can chew, spit out, and find a solution (or try to) to a social problem, it must be defined, as to set a standard.  Although, as times goes by, and the roles within ‘families’ changes, according to Webster Dictionary Online, one of the definitions for family is: a group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head.  Family, as we have seen (especially on our time), changes although the time, and to “extremes”.  Families are no longer define as just blood related individuals (where the home is usually patriarch), but of different individuals who share a common values (families of same-sex parents or a set of single mothers).  The one thing that is kept constant in a family, and that must always be understood and/or acknowledge, is that family values can influence greatly its member, who in turn affect society.  This is to say, that for example, a child that grows up in a hostile environment, where violence is common place, may develop the same feelings as he or she grows up, and become dangerous individuals to society. As shown by the many stats stated in our book (Contemporary Social Problems by Parrillo), the increased in divorced in American families, children of divorce parents are more likely to follow such ethics, 1/3^rd of all US birth’s occur among unmarried women, and over 2 million wives are beaten annually.  These are one of the few effects of poor families values, or an increased in violence in households; this shows how a poor environment at home, can affect an individual in life, which in turn causes (as I said before) the individual to act hostile toward society (this becomes a chain reaction for example, from father to son).

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