1. Marriage In America
People evolve into their current selves as a result of their surroundings and what they allow to influence their psyche. ... This is why I am currently working on my own clothing line called "Hooligan Life.... I know that if I continued to live my life focused on walking in my sister's shoes, I would not have found myself; I would not have found Simone. ...
Discussing how and why the ghost story genre focuses on dysfunctional families. The Victorian ghost story usually focuses and reflects on the role of family life in Britain, highlighting the key issues in which shows that families were dysfunctional in this era. ... The women in Victorian society were encouraged to talk but did not have any real knowledge about literature or politics/current affairs. ... Gaskell focuses and emphasizes the relationship of the rivalry of the sisters throughout which can be alarming and distressing for the reader as they can relate to a breakdown with a family me...
This year's KIDS COUNT Data Book, the sixth annual edition, places a special focus on a problem that is at the heart of many current social policy debates: the increasing fraction of our children who are growing up without their fathers actively involved in their lives. ... Because many of the children currently living in two-parent families are projected to experience a divorce before they grow up, more than half of today's children are likely to spend some of their childhood in a single-parent home. ...
As the story unfolds and we see the violence that occurs between the current boyfriend and husband this statement becomes very telling. When Frank is murdered the film focuses on how both of his parents deal with the grief and struggles over losing their only son. ...
The current daily hassles of less sleep, job duties, and longer mornings getting ready are also stressors in her life. ... Her emotion focused coping has also played an active role in her ability to take control of stress. By viewing the positives in her life and changing the way she views the negative stressors, she has maintained focused attention to her many roles as mother, wife, student and employee. ...
Why does our nation focus its attention mainly on the financial well-being of our children and not their emotional stability? ... While there are many aspects involved in raising children in split families, we will focus on the resources available to both custodial and non-custodial parents. ... My husband and I being in a current custody and support battle ourselves, I can attest to the extremely limited resources that a non-custodial parent has, and we are merely asking for visitation at the present time. ...
While some consider that parents are responsible for their children's material upbringing and that they need to provide their offspring with the basic needs, others believe that parents primarily need to focus on the intellectual upbringing of their children. ... As a social worker, Jeannette's family would be a tremendous challenge due to her parents currently falling into the motivational interviewing definition of "pre-contemplation.... As they progress through the contemplative stage into the preparation stage, the focus and direction becomes clearer for both the social work...
The article "Early care and Education for Children in Immigrant Families," written by Karoly and Gonzalez, examine the current role of and future possibility that early care and education (ECE) programs have in promoting healthy development for immigrant children. ... Karoly and Gonzalez, however, focus their study on participation patterns specifically of immigrant children. ... Patterns such as this have been confirmed in their studies by data taken from the 2000 Census and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- KIndergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) with a focus exclusively on preschool childre...
Although the discussions of how the family melodrama differs from the family sitcom is focused on interaction with others, it has become increasingly clear that both formats have varied their family oriented structure to the interaction between coworkers and partnerships. ... Her big trials and tribulations involve her current feelings and circumstances surrounding these boys and Felicity's reaction and action when it comes to conflict. ... It focuses on the issues that everybody can relate to - attraction, lust, ideally the opposite sex, which then brings up love. ...
In order to stay current, MTV sends researchers into the field to dig through dorm room, closets, and CD collections of eighteen to twenty-four year olds. ... In developing VH1, its president John Sykes wanted "a focused adult channel with a singular vision music first." ...
This father-son relationship is the key relationship in the play; this is the relationship that Miller always focuses on. Joe Keller always looks at the "wanted" advertisements in the paper, not interested in the current affairs of the world. ...
Kirsty's trust and confidence are shattered by Rhys" confession that Dylan, her current love interest, is his son and her half sibling. ... He knows that he has been through a change of self, with the flame long gone, but is only focussing on the negatives - failing to see past the immediate future. ...
He has two younger sisters in which one is adopted through another family, now with a younger brother that was currently born. ... This kid gets true love from her parents but they focus more of what she does wrong then what she does right. ...
My main focus was school and getting good grades. ... Our biggest focus was school. ... As a young Mexican-American who is currently working towards obtaining an associate's degree, it is my duty to take advantage of the opportunities available here in the United States and to help empower other young Latinos to do the same. ...
Many people who live in modern society today have benefited from social improvements which have changed the overall quality of life for the better. We are now living in an age of increased life expectancy, better access to health care, social services, technology, mobility, and far more human right...
Sometimes when they are unable to resolve their conflict, the warring parties may join together to focus attention on another family member as a way to avoid dealing with the real problem. ... Students (and, indeed staff) bring into school all manner of concerns and influences and issues that are current in society. ...
I grew older and wiser and I took those opinions and began to form my own opinions based off of prior beliefs, and realized how I really felt about the current events that was a daily issue being discussed nationally. ... A majority of her comments focus solely around how conflicted the world is, and how Obama is portrayed as the bad guy, making bad decisions for most of the time. ...
