Just as there a scientists, who believe that homosexuality in genetic, parents become concerned that their children are flawed in some way if they go beyond the gender roles assigned to them by tradition. ... Many parents do not go out and buy dolls for their sons, so they can practice parenting, as girls do, just as they wouldn't buy trucks and building blocks for their daughters. ... Instead parents are afraid to step out of those gender lines and social lines to allow their children to play with whatever toy they chose and to become any person they chose. ...

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According to Siegel (2011), family is the primary unit where children learn the values and attitudes that will guide them throughout their lives but when this very important unit is disrupt or goes under drastic changes can have negative long-lasting effects in the children. ... According to Siegel (2011) children that go through family transitions are more likely to engage in delinquent activity due to lack of supervision and many times they advantage of the situation ending up doing whatever they want. ...

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She states, "by requiring the surrogate mother to repress whatever parental love she feels for the child, these norms convert women's labor into a form of alienated labor.... This idea is proven to be correct by the manipulation a surrogate agent must go through in order to convince some women to become a surrogate. ...

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Nilda, is always the one that has to go to the welfare office with her mother to explain the family's situation. ... When immigrant women are faced with problems that they are unable to solve, they frequently do not know where to go for help. ... They do whatever they have to do support their family and try to give them a better life. ...

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Ethnocultural theory of understanding the interrelations of alcohol and human behavior are that "ways of drinking and of thinking about drinking are learned by individuals within the context in which they learn ways of doing other things and of thinking about them--that is, whatever else drinking may be, it is an aspect of culture about which patterns of belief and behavior are modeled by a combination of example, exhortation, rewards, punishments, and the many other means, both formal and informal, that societies use for communicating norms, attitudes, and values" (Heath,1982). ... This paper...

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But I was not prepared to receive such news, it was the beginning of 2005 and my father seeing that my mother was for several days complaining about a pain in the belly, they both decided to go to the hospital and ask a medical opinion of what could be that pain. ... My father gave a huge smile and said, "Lucas, you will have a brother" and he gave a happy laugh, like making joke of us, because we thought that it could possibly be a disease but actually it would be my brother coming, the brother that I always wanted is finally coming to give me company, even with the large age difference, it w...

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This is the basis of a collectivistic up bringing where whatever the family needs will always come before your own personal needs. ... We see this in how Billy rebels and goes back to dancing behind his fathers back even after he was banned from dancing. ... He goes back and forth between traditional and modern family values, and the director uses clever cinematography in order to show us this. ...

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In the countryside on farms, most housewives would toss even trash and food scraps out whatever door or window most convenient at the time into the yard for the livestock to pick over later. ... Most small farms often had no privy site, and there were none in the slaves' quarters, so when men and women working in the field had to go, they went where they stood basically. ...

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Changes that Affect the Function and Structure of the Traditional Family It is obvious that variations in the family structure will increase in number and forms as time goes on. ... When a family goes through a divorce, they face many changes and challenges in the living situation, custody of children and co-parental relations, income/finances, and adjustment, to name a few. The most important choice parents can make after the divorce is how they are going to relate to each other. ...

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