Chapter four discuses the relationship between a family as a primary group in our culture. It further discuses that the family is the foremost example of a primary group in a culture. ... If you have a strong family supporting you, the less likely you are to make the wrong choices according to society norms. ... In addition, if I should ever decide to have my own family, I will ensure that my children are kept close. Children are our future and they need to be supported by a family. ...

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There are many different ways in which you can look at a family and apply it to a community, as well as apply community to family. ... Family is the stepping stone for community and Tonnies helped me understand family and its importance. ... Family is community and community is family. ... They also provide values, emotional support, general support, authority etc , thus preparing you for the larger community setting. ... What is meant by applying yourself is developing that family of your own, whether it is immediate family or communal family. ...

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The first institution that is considered to be very important is the family. The families role in society is to give all the necessities to your young ones, including all the emotional, physical and mental support. But unfortunately there occur problems in society where the family are just not able to support the family, so the family itself is just destroyed and dysfunctional. ... Better teacher support and busing. ... But during the week there is just no spiritual guidance there to support them. ...

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The family is a major staple of American life. Families nurture, protect and provide for you as a child and support you in your life choices as an adult. ... Single mothers head many poor families. ... Some even stir up enough support to run for President of the United States. ... If they support a political candidate they usually support the one that offers the best benefits for the poor such as more welfare and tax incentives. ...

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Frankie was born into a family with intense financial burdens. ... When Frankie turned fifteen, in efforts to support his mother and siblings, he went out and got a job at a coal mine. Frankie was forced to take on the position of his father, which his father did not assume, by supporting his mother and siblings. ... Amongst this book, he found the names of his friends, family, and neighbors. People that he cared about, that all borrowed money to help support him, in effort to make him a better person. ...

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"Child and Family Well-Being" is important because it means that the child has an opportunity to grow and develop in an environment that provides consistent nurture, support, and stimulation (Casey Outcomes & Decision Making Process [CODMP], 1998). Support from the family helps children to grow and develop in a positive way. ... Community Supports for Families 2. Family-Centered Services 3. ... This involves promoting pro-child/pro-family federal legislation or searching for creative agency responses, or supporting clients who empower themselves, or a variety of other responses (Crosso...

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I have two loving parents that have always supported me and taught me life's lessons while also letting me develop my own morals and values by their example. ... I don't know where I would be without the support of my family. ... So many teens are lost without family guidance. I feel very lucky to be very close to my own family. ... You should support your family members in the good, the bad and the thick and thin times. ...

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My family definitely fits into these criteria. ... They typically live in the least desirable neighborhoods often found in inner cities, and usually the family size is somewhat larger than middle class families (Macionis 206-7). ... This is the case for the Rivers family. LaJoe, the mother, supports her eight children with welfare. She does not have the education to support her family through other means. ...

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For example, gender, race, religion, family background and social status determine how successful one may be. ... The objective of the welfare system is move people from depending on the government to supporting themselves. ... The people within the Democratic Party are liberal people that support the welfare system. By supporting the welfare system the Democratic will receive more votes in an election. Since the Democratic Party is trying to get be the majority party in the government, supporting the welfare system would be a political advantage. ...

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Friends and families play a huge role in our life. ... Families and friends are our life supports. ... Families of 3 students killed in a 1997 high school shooting rampage in West Paducah blame violence in the media. ... Parents or close family members should constantly talk and interact with their children, keep them happy, make them feel loved and important. ...

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At sixteen I have viewed my life and determined that family, friendships, education, humor, and creativity are my top five values. ... Family is at the very top of my values because I agree that an overall rule for mankind is that family always comes first. From the first moment of your life you are cared for and protected for by family. My family is foremost do to the fact that after the past three years where I have been extremely sick which included going through three surgeries I had support. ... I cherish my family. ...

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This is also the same case when it comes to talking about issues as they all show much support and attention. ... When it comes to the family, the Americans are likely to leave their families for jobs in far cities or in foreign countries. ... They are also less aggressive when it comes to employment because they can support each other in the family. For instance, if the grandfather is rich he can support all his sons and their families (Burroughs, Vicki and James 20). ... This is more at family level where there are different social customs. ...

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Despite statistics, many homes that are composed of single parents and his or her children are still considered incomplete and not supported fully by society. ... The individuals in her intended audience who have encountered this problem however, will be able to relate to her comments and be there to support her thesis fully. ... Carol Kleiman created a solid foundation for other men and women who may also feel that single parents are still being mistreated with different respect as to the "perfect families". ... She has made a great statement about the single parent families and how they ...

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From my point of view, the speech is all about family and child. ... She takes family and child at the first. ... "We are all part of one family, the American family, and each one of us has value. ... " This sentence makes a start of how we can do to take care of everybody's value, which is start by doing more to support parents and the job they have to do. ... Every family cares about the children, however, not every family has time or money to pay much attention on the children, which makes the children's education tough and little. ...

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Some of my most important values consist of my family, my ethnicity and my memories. Something that I value the most would be my family. Family means a lot for me because no matter what happens, my family would always be there for me. Life would be really different if I didn't have the family that I have now. In my family, I am taught that no matter what difficulties I have to face, my family would always be there and support me. ...

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Family was important in Indian culture... Those who could support such large households, which normally meant only the highest caste groups, gathered all the male members of a given family and their wives and children under the same roof. ... Family households were run by the older men, and although women could inherit, male children normally received the greater share of family property." ... The eldest male is the head of the family, and any male is higher than a female. ... However there is more evidence in this paper to show that extended family was more important in the Indian culture...

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When I was sixteen my Mother was laid off from her job at the Casino, she was a cage shift manager she worked a lot of hours and made more than enough money to support the both of us. ... I look up to her In so many ways and I just feel the need to repay her for everything she has done, with the little money that she gets she still manages to support me through college, and get me what I need to get through it. ... Growing up people like family members, and close friends of my mom would always wonder why she was so protective of me, whenever an incident or something would happen with me and on...

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He and his family endured a very stressful time for seven months, after which the family felt that the treatment was not satisfactory. ... T and his family. ... Caring refers to the activity of providing care and support. 3. ... These activities allow or promotion and support patient to adjust personal health attitude to useful result while regarding the patient's values. ... Families are tightly-knit and ...

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They were dependent on their male relatives to support them. They were used to forge alliances with other powerful families through arranged marriages. ... Elizabeth "was answerable to no male member of the family. ... Through his plays, Shakespeare began to openly support feminist ideology. ...

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Graham Greene states that " for it had suffered from the blast of the bomb and the side walls were supported on wooden struts. ... Trevor's family have been affected in the sense that he and his family do not have any of the money they once had, anymore. ... Trevor wants to destroy anything beautiful and Old Misery's house is the lavish beautiful thing, since he and his family do not own any of those once expensive things, he wants to destroy them. ...

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Children who are born into wealthy families are more likely than children born into poverty to enjoy good health, find academic success, succeed in employment and enjoy a long life. ... However, our social system supports a wide variety of mechanisms to encourage educational attainment including mandatory school attendance and low cost loans and grants for college students, thus giving everyone a chance to be educated. The landmark Coleman Study (1966) found that the single most important factor in determining educational attainment is the family environment. ... A median family in the U.S. ...

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For example, the call for decrease in violence and crime has had the full support of all churches in Belize. The issue of child abuse and neglect has been fully supported by all religious denominations in our country. ... Competition among churches creates doubt especially in our modern world where even with the existence of several churches family life and moral values have deteriorated tremendously. ...

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Socialization Family make up, American families are usually comprised of a mother, father, and children. Other families also include grandparents, aunts, uncles and other member of the immediate family. There are new trends in family make up, those are family's that are comprised of two parents of the same sex, and single parent family's both are becoming more prevalent in American culture. Family values, family values can and do vary from one family to the next. ... Churches, attract the upper and middle classes because they support there world views and values, where as sects ...

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You obviously would not do that in front of your friends, family, or loved ones you would let them see your upset side. ... The reason mainly that these kids aren't given any assistance is because their parents have been categorized as lazy, for not working full-time to support their family and this isn't always the case because they have young children who they need to be with at home. ...

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The questionnaire consisted of 3 categories - work, family and issues. ... Under the family category the questions asked if there was an O.K. balance in their life today between career/job requirements and personal and family obligations, if the rewards of marriage/family life today equal the obligations, and if having children (now or in the future) was an important part of their family life. ... In the family category, 60% of the people interviewed felt there was a good balance in their life between their career/job requirements and their personal and family obligations. When asked if t...

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