These families differ from those of today in the areas of family structure, family cycle which includes mate selection, marriage institution, family member roles, child rearing, and later life, family controls and censures. ... When a child was born, it was first laid at the feet of its father. If the father picked the child up, it was then known that the father accepted the child as his own, and admitted it to the rights and privileges of the family. If the father was to refuse the child as his own, the child would become an outcast, and would be put by the r...

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Motherhood was no longer seen as every woman's maternal instinct and was claimed to be not sufficient enough for child rearing. ... The issue of combining child rearing and career also arose. ... If a woman can bring a child into this world, it should also be her choice not to bring a child into this world as well. ...

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Great decrease in the proportion of women favoring large family, both husbands and wives should be able to work, have roughly similar opportunities, and share household responsibilities and child rearing. ... Another type of couple that need not be married is the young couple with the pregnant single mother who are just getting married because an un-expecting child is on the way. There are other options other than just getting married, having the child, fighting disrespectfully in front of the child and then getting a divorce. I feel they are just doing more damage to the child than if they we...

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People should vote and file a petition to change the system of our government that married couples should be prepared and do some kind of community services regarding child-rearing, or propose a town meeting that will discuss a healthy relationship that will benefit their role as parent and as husband and wife as well. ... The importance of having two parents in a child's life has a great impact on their behavior and personality. ... Our current welfare system encourages the formation of "the mother-state-child family" and Uncle Sam has become a marriage partner and "father" as a last res...

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When she was a very small child of "toddling age." ... After adopting her, they lovingly reared her. ... The Valmonde adopted and reared her. ... Madame is surprised at how the child, a boy, has grown. ... Come with your child." ...

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Johnson was the middle child, fourth from the oldest out of all her brothers and sisters. ... Families actively play a role in gender-role-socialization by the ways in which they organize the environment for the child. ... Research has shown that a mother's child rearing style as well as her own beliefs on gender roles has a major influence on daughters. ... They had one child, her youngest son out of this union. ...

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I am female, white, and straight. Five years from now, I will be living the American dream, marrying an average working-class hero type of man. I will be happy and in love. However, millions of United States citizens are being denied this same right which will someday legally merge me and my futu...

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In our modern world women attribute a great deal to our society as a whole. Possessing qualities of strength and intelligence as well as the ability to cope with certain burdens. However modern women were not the first to attain these attributions. Women throughout Greece showed a certain strength ...

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This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... There was also the feeling for some that they were failing in child rearing. They were being told that the "most primary and inviolable of human ties was the one between mother and child" (Gilder 81). ...

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Each child is unique, so the short and long term functioning of the children after divorce varies widely. ... This can be associated with a child's disturbed eating, sleeping, play and toileting, (Wallerstein & Blakeslee). ... In a study done by Judith Wallerstein, she tracked 131 children of divorced parents 10 and 15 years after the divorce, she found that diminished parenting continued permanently, disrupting the child-rearing functions of the family. The role of the child becomes one of warding off the serious depression that threatens the parents and holding the parent together. Wall...

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In truth, studies show that marital satisfaction decreases for one or both spouses during the child rearing years. One or both parents claim this for reasons such as no time and energy for their relationship and having a child adds financial restraints. Marital status does, in fact, increase when the child or children grow up and leave home. ...

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Parent-child interact is not the give-and-take of a developing relationship but the giving of orders by a superior to a sub ordinate. ... Parent-child interaction is generally characterized by affection, a certain amount of give-and-take, but relatively clear expectations for the children's behavior. ... Parent-child interaction may consist of parental acceptance and approval of whatever the children decide to do. 4). ... The fulfillment comes not only at the time of birth but through the child-rearing years. ...

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In order to keep from bringing shame to herself, Lusanna, ...may have circulated rumors of giving birth to, and rearing, children as a form of wish fulfillment and to refute allegations that she was sterile. ... She tried to make things better for Giovanni by taking the baby of a slave girl so, ...his relatives would think that the child was his (Brucker 86) but this was highly illegal to claim this so the plan was not followed through. ... Though Lusanna may have had a reason for all the lovers even if it brought her a bad name, Her barren state may have induced her to find satisfaction in ...

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Relating this idea back to the break up of the family, we see that when a child is raised in a broken family, his morality is also broken. When that child has a family of his own, break up of his family is inevitable, further decreasing the morality of his children. ... The word family, as defined in Webster's New World College Dictionary, means a social unit consisting of parents and the children they rear. ...

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Death and God Death is perhaps the greatest mystery of life. It is one of the few things we can offer no concrete answer. We know why we die and what causes death, but we do not know if anything exists after death. Modern man seeks truths based on facts and proof. We do not have any proof or eyewi...

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Changes in Women and Marriage- Changes in Women and Marriage- Abstract This paper presents an in-depth discussion about the changing relationship between women and marriage. Economic factors, a rise in feminism, parents" influence, attitudes about sex, educational pursuits, and divorce statistics are discussed and their influence on women's attitudes toward marriage are explored. Cultural changes that have impacted women's lives are also examined. The purpose of the paper is to explore the changes affecting women, their attitudes toward marriage, and their expectations of marriag...

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Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the...

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