They vary between one family and the next. ... We see families as units that are indestructible, constantly supportive, and held together by a bond that cannot change or be broken. ... Breakdowns between families, particularly between parents and children, are a common occurrence in today's hostile world. ... Real families do not always follow the perfect ideals that television demands of them. ... These feelings may evolve into resentfulness and result in a break in once close family ties. ...

• Word Count: 1761
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sofia is great to the family. ... Celie has only known the importance of standing up for other women in her family. ... Celie and Sofia, form a deep bond. ... There is a sisterly bond between Nettie and Celie. ... Sofia has a bonding with her sisters as well. ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It was expected for a woman to marry in her early 20's, start a family, and commit her life to homemaking. ... Male bonding was an acknowledged and projected eventuality--women bonding together was considered an act of betrayal within the man's world. The start of the feminist movement gave authorization for female bonding. ...

• Word Count: 1410
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Awakening opens in Grand Isle, a summer holiday resort where Edna is vacationing with her family. ... She depends on her family, not herself, and is notable for her beauty. ... Chopin explores the female-female bond, a feminist feature, in connection to Edna and Adele. ... The woman gives up her family in exchange for a much-desired independence, but she gets involved in a new relation, which suffocates her independence. ... Robert awakens her senses, and she begins to break with some of society's conventions, but she is still consumed by a romantic need for a bond with a man. ...

• Word Count: 1837
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

___'s house, she goes to Africa with a family of Christian missionaries. ... Together they share a bond and she finds comfort in Nettie after her husband dies. ... One of the themes of The Color Purple is love redeems, hate kills and for Walker, redemptive love requires female bonding. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Marriage, which brings together male and female to form thier own nuclear family. ... Each species has a certain male and female bond, but the physical, social, and emotional aspects are not like that of humans. ... This is such a taboo act one because of the effects of inbreeding, and beacuse family members have the same genes and therefore defecrive genes have a much better chance of coming out. Another reason for one such taboo is to prevent sexual conflicts between members of one particular nuclear family, which would be disruptive emotionally and economically. ...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His main focuses are on the preservation of environmental systems, social inequity, and family. ... Even as a women she held up her responsibilities and supported her family without her husband in the picture. ... Bellah et al. expresses also how to recognize values and gaining personal experiences of one another through communication helps lead to societal bonding. ...

• Word Count: 1394
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Women have fought and struggled for equality for many years but are still treated as second-class citizens. Socially constructed gender roles all too often undermine a woman's potential. Even in fictional novels such as Isabelle Allende's Eva Luna, "she depended on her husband for everything- (Al...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School