Many people have been socialized to believe that the definition of a family looks a lot like an old fashioned telivision sitcom, consisting of a nuclear family, which is "a family group comprising only the wife, the husband, and their children However, a family is a relativist concept, meaning it varies from place to place and through time. One detail of families that is definite is that they are extremely varied. ... In many cultures a family can include multiple spouses. A family of procreation is created through marriage [and] a family of orientation is the one in...

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY 1. ... People believed that men had certain characteristics that enabled them to be better outside the home, for the purpose of supporting his family. ... Women now felt they did not need support from the man, because of career opportunities out there. ... The family is bringing in more money to support it, but is also taking away from the raising of the children. ... Husbands working to support his family, the wives home taking care of the children. ...

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Family Planning The issue of family planning is closely linked to what is called " Population Explosion". ... Eventually there will be a family but no land for them. If the family is in trouble them the society is in trouble. ... A lot of times when children are born into large, closely-spaced families have to compete with brothers and sisters for food, clothing, and the most important affection from their parents A lot of couples thought that having five children would be make for a nice sized family, but after looking at the consequences of a big family they cons...

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After all the male of the family had the education, and responsibility to look after the women of the family. ... On the other hand, if the children came from a poor family, where their parents could not support them , the state could remove the child, or children, from their family and contract them (by agreement) as an indentured servant. ... When children were placed in other families, they were cared for as members of that family. ... Like a rock foundation, the women of society supported the revolution and emerged stronger for it. They endured the loss of family and kin, watched huma...

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Today there are many ways in which you may classify a family unit, and more are trying to get a broader definition of family to be the framework for public policy pertaining to family. ... In past the extended family has been a form of primary socialization, a source of free daycare, and a crucial form of social support structure. ... As families and society develops new definitions for family they must have government follow suit. ... There must be allowable both in mainstream society and in political venues a idea of family being a support structure that can be maintained with many different...

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National Policy on Women was introduced in 1989 under the Ministry of Women and Family Development, which has now changed its name to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community. ... Generally the Ministry of Women, Family and Community formed to increase public awareness of the importance of the role of women and the family institution to achieve the national development agenda. There are four other agencies under the administration of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community, Department of Women Development (DWD), the Social Welfare Department of Malaysia (JKM), the Board of The National ...

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What is the family? ... Self-preservation is one of the laws that a family follows. ... Children are no longer obligated to rely on their father for support. ... Moreover, the family is still following its basic laws. ... Rousseau compares the family to government. ...

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What is the family? ... Self-preservation is one of the laws that a family follows. ... Children are no longer obligated to rely on their father for support. ... Moreover, the family is still following its basic laws. ... Rousseau compares the family to government. ...

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Support for the government and its decisions creates all sorts of emotions and controversy within families. One such example would be America and its allies choosing to make war on Iraq without the United Nations support. How the support for the war is moving will affect a family's stress level for their family in the military; if US morale is low, it might cause family to question why their child, sibling, or kin in general is in such a dangerous situation. ... I figured out that sharing the worry with my family makes it easier to deal with the stress and the worry because we have a str...

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There is also an increase in the amount of families whose income is not enough to sufficiently support them. ... There is currently now a five year limit on the amount of time a family can receive money from this organization, because Congress is trying to emphasize putting the recipients to work at jobs with which they can then support themselves. ... One finding was that the aid to families with dependant families increases significantly over 30 years. ... Changes in the federal welfare rules and different proposals to stop federal subsidy levels for 2003 are expected to reduce the number of...

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A poverty line is set, and this line is an average income amount that is set to show how much it would cost to support a given family. ... So let's say that our example family has two parents and two children. ... It's her laziness that keeps her family in poverty. Welfare is supposed to be a last resort, used only when parents can't support their family. ... If we get rid of this option of welfare for the people capable of supporting themselves, it will make them work for what they get and to help the economy and themselves. ...

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If the adults aren't able to support their family, it comes to the point where children have to drop out of activities in school to work because the parents can't pay for them. ... This shows that the individuals working their minimum wage jobs aren't earning enough income to live, or support their families. ... With all of the expenses of living, and supporting family, raising the minimum wage isn't the ultimate solution if it doesn't keep pace with inflation. ... The average family household income in 2012 was $64,053. ... There are resources for financial aid, emoti...

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First I would like to look at the supporting views to the school voucher program. ... "Vouchers will give families of all income levels the option to choose which school they want their children to attend, public or private, religious or secular... The final, but real important, issue in the supporting view of the programs would be that school vouchers strengthens inner-city communities. ... Schools are the second most important institution, to me, besides the family. ... As a matter of fact, they feel that people who have worked hard to provide their families with a nice living and have ea...

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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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Welfare is the provision of a minimal level of well-being and social support for all citizens, sometimes referred to as public aid. ... If the family makes more than they are not eligible to receive the benefits (USDA).The minimum wage in the state of Oregon is $9.25/hour. ... This is enough to support and buy the necessary things to keep a household alive and healthy. ... In turn they are unable to work and need other resources to feed their families. ... It is unfair to American citizens that their hard work and their taxes go to illegal immigrants to support and feed their families. ...

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The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised family's income was only around $10,000 in 1995. ... The Chicago coalition for the homeless states that a person must be employed full time and earn more than $8.29 per hour in order to exceed the federal poverty level for a family of four. ... These people are less likely to be able to obtain support such as treatment, case management and the help that is necessary to find and maintain permanent housing. ... New York University did a study that concl...

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Due to the soil lacking the minerals that is needed to grow crops, people have a hard producing enough to feed their families and to still have enough left over to sell and gain income for their families. ... In Angola and Afghanistan, where contraception usage is the lowest, less then 10 percent of couples use effective family planning. ... In order to minimize families, 91 percent of married women use some form of birth control. ... Funding for family planning had been a major priority during this period; the government itself had been the biggest contributor. ... The government wanted women...

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The use of uniforms will strip identity, stifle creativity, and unnecessarily burden the families that cannot afford them. ... Similarly, a student might want to wear green colored clothing to show his or her support for St. ... A national study released in October of 1998 by Educational Testing Service found that there was no evidence to support claims that uniforms reduce discipline problems. ... The address for the study's web site is: http://www.ets.org/research/pic/orderclass/oicchap1.html The last issue that needs to be addressed is the unnecessary burden that will be placed upo...

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From an early age, most American girls aspire to get married and begin a family. ... I believe that a major contributor to the moral and social decay within American society is the breakup of the family unit. ... In the case of my family I feel that my parents were rushed into marriage, either by themselves or by other family members. ... Many have not been out in the work field for the length of their marriage, and if even if they do return the lack of education and skill limit their ability to find a well paying job that will support her family and herself. ... Our society is accustomed to...

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The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised families income was only around $10,000 in 1995. ... These people are less likely to be able to obtain support such as treatment, case management and the help that is necessary to find and maintain permanent housing. ... At which point the father then grabs his daughter by her hand and says to his family, dont even look at him, and then rushes them away. ... New York University did a study that concluded that low-income housing projects ar...

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The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised families income was only around $10,000 in 1995. ... These people are less likely to be able to obtain support such as treatment, case management and the help that is necessary to find and maintain permanent housing. ... At which point the father then grabs his daughter by her hand and says to his family, dont even look at him, and then rushes them away. ... New York University did a study that concluded that low-income housing projects ar...

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In addition, the government is tackling the poverty issue by raising benefits for non-working families. ... The US has successfully raised work among low income families, but the sort of cuts in benefits for non-working families that brought this about are unlikely to be politically viable here. Furthermore, although employment rates are much higher in the US for low-income families, because many of these are on low pay, poverty rates remain high for these individuals. ... The problem with this is that there is not much evidence to support this view. ... It is esse...

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Many argue that welfare is necessary for many families, and that it must not be cut. Some argue that it is giving starving families the boost they need to make it one more year. ... Yes, we need welfare, but we also need to limit the amount of time a family can stay on it. My cousin, who is now twenty-eight years old, has never worked a day in her life because the government has always supported her and her children. ... Many of the families on welfare are poor and lazy. ...

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Adults remember" how tough it when they were in school," but growing evidence supports the public's position that school, while getting easier, ignores the increasing knowledge base needed to compete in a high tech marketplace. ... Milwaukee allowed private schools to compete for students under an experimental program: students from low-income families were given tuition at private schools that participated in the program (chira 1992;Kelly 1993;Mclarin1995). ... A bill in congress in 1997 called for federal funds to be used for vouchers given to low-income families for tuition at private...

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The government thinks that by giving some money to the needy families, it will, somehow, magically solve the poverty in America. ... If the families stay on welfare for that long, it brings me to a logical conclusion. ... Welfare should be a bridge to get over a difficult period of time in one's life to be able to find a job in the future, and not a permanent support. ... We as a people work to support ourselves. Training the unskilled, low-income families will have a positive effect on the nation later on. ...

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