I've never understood how a mother's bond with a stranger could be stronger than the bond she has with her own daughter. ... A bond is developed over time, so in order to have a successful bond, one must have patience. ... The summer after my family moved, I went to visit my mother before I had to go back home to Lake Village, Arkansas, and begin my junior year of high school. ... The main reason I chose not to move to Georgia with my family is because my baby sister, Lilly, was born two years before Joey lost his job. ... A perfect bond destroyed is far more painful than a bond that...

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Cornell University conducted a study with 12 and 13 year old's from single parent families. ... The study also showed that these kids have a stronger bond with their parent or any other extended family or friends that had helped raise them. Being a single parent, you're apt to create a stronger bond with your kids due to the fact you spend more one on one time together. ... Children in single parent families tend to learn that marriage is only an option and it's not necessary to be happy. ... Kids learn disappointment early in living in a single family home, which is really a ...

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Obviously families aren't perfect. ... The importance of family is surreal. ... The bond between you and your family right now is crucial. ... Don't take your family for granted. ... Love your family like they love you. ...

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Hirschi also presented us with the term "social bond" that he labeled as things that keep people from committing criminal acts. There are four main attributes to the social bond; attachment, commitment, involvement, and beliefs. ... The first bond, attachment, refers to a person's sensitivity to and interest in others (Hirshi 1969). ... Hirschi also noted that he found that one's attachment to parents and school overshadows the bond formed with one's peers. ... The third bond is involvement. ...

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Being the only child in a family is easy because it awarded me with various positive experiences such as; having high self-esteem, being lavished with extra loving attention, and establishing a closer relationship with my grandfather. ... Being the only child I got to experience this special bond. As for a family with other siblings the love would have to be shared. Having my grandfather as my parent, I realize we have a very special bond that most children and parents haven't been able to experience. ...

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Their relationships with their own mothers, friends, extended family, the child's father, and most importantly, their child are gravely impacted. ... "Individualism and connectivity" (Gunn, 1996) creates a good bond between she and her teen. ... All the people in attendance were my family. ... He will in turn develop an extremely close bond with their child. ... They also capture relationships with their families; mothers especially and their friends both old and new. ...

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He sincerely thinks, "A man got to take care of his family Cause it's my duty to take care of you" (Wilson 38). ... Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration reports a method on how to engage in a healthy relationship, "which highlight the importance of spending time with family to foster communication, provide positive reinforcement, role model, teach social skills, and to bond.... Love is present and obvious when a solid bond is developed between the child and the parent. The feeling of this special and inexplicable bond can only ...

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Oxytocin promotes maternal-infant bonding-that in-love-with-my-baby feeling. Strong maternal-infant bonding promotes better infant care and decreases the incidence of postpartum depression and psychosomatic illness in the mother" (Berchelmann). ... There is no other point in life were this bonding experience is possible. ... The gift of feeling safe and loved, that is been given to the child with baby wearing, is the foundation for healthy family bonds and is defiantly worth a little back pain....

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I realize politics play a crucial role in the criminal justice system, including court decisions. In more conservative areas, many feel marriage is a bond which should only be between a man and woman. It has been an ongoing debate on whether children can be raised properly in a home with homosexual ...

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And ultimately severed their bonds with our family. ... The communication in my family was great until the conflict with my parent authority began. ... The conflict with my parent's authority tore our family bond apart. I wonders to myself what happened to our close family bond. ... The authority dramatically changed how the family members in my house operated. ...

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It is evidence between mother and child so that will come to bond between two, the bond of a mother's love. A gentle hand reaches out and grasps another and this time that gentle hand shows a different bond the love of a daughter for her mother. ... Mothers are always there for family in bad or good times. ... A child needs a strong bond to feel safe and to know that they have someone to trust. ...

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According to Amato and Keith, "When it comes to a divorce, children in single parent families are worse off due to reduced parental attention, lack of paternal role models, and reduced family income" (Vanassche et al., 2013). ... According to Booth and Amato, "Both the mother–child and father–child relationships are negatively affected by a parental divorce; however, the mother–child bond is more resilient, whereas the father–child bond is more vulnerable. ... "As the marital relationship deteriorates, interactions between family members can become i...

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When looking at what these children go through, the ways you can help them, and how it effects the entire family, it becomes clear that divorce is something that effects everyone in different ways. ... Teenagers often get worried about adult things, such as the family's financial situation, during a divorce. ... Divorce can have many different effects on siblings in a family. Often, brothers and sisters will form a tighter bond while going through such a difficult time. ...

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Strangely, I did not feel a bond between us. ... We sometimes sat in our room praying and crying, hoping that my father would come home for our family to reunite. ... He is the father that doesn't care about neither his kids nor his family. ... After that day, my family had torn apart. ... I hate him for what he did to my family: family that I have wanted so much. ...

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Maybe a father has lost his job and needs to find another so he can provide for his family, the father is desperate. ... Fathers and daughters have a bond that can never be replaced. ... Sometimes she worked two jobs to be able to provide our family with the basic necessities. ...

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Price goes to stay with her mother for a while after the death of her unborn baby boy and Dolores has time to bond and become closer with her father, after a few weeks of bonding, Dolores goes to visit her mother and her mother informs her that Dolores's father wants a divorce. ... When Dolores was younger, her family was close, her mother became pregnant, but unfortunately it was a difficult pregnancy and Dolores's unborn brother passed away. ... In Dolores's life she faces rape by one of her close friends, abandonment by her father and husband, and death of family and loves o...

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The parents want to develop a strong bond with their child but they also want to maintain a healthy relationship among themselves along with their other friendships. Through life, the bond between a child and parent will grow and expand in many ways. ... I would say my family has grown in many ways. ... We all matured and coped with the issues at hand, and now we are a very strong family. ...

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In the article from the "Journal of Divorce and Remarriage," Michelle Moon states, "Much of the divorce literature indicates that children from intact, never divorced families exhibit fewer behavioral problems and evidence greater psychological adjustment than children from divorced or remarried families" (Moon 2011). ... A review of marriage research released in 2005, suggested that "children of two-parent families were better off emotionally, socially and economically.... Parental involvement needs to continue to encourage the bond between parent and child and protec...

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The Journal of Marriage and The Family, vol. 50 states that boys of divorced parents have a low probability of ever getting married. ... In most divorced families, it is common that the mother receive custody of the child/children. ... A study was done on intact families (non divorced families) and families of divorce. ... However, most of the research on boys" adjustment fails to consider the quality or quantity of father-child contact or the availability of alternative difficult to assess the impact of changing family structure on boys" behavior (Journal of Marriage and The Family, vol.50). ...

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Continuing on, our family has always traveled extensively, but the contrasting views on traveling differ considerably between my father and me. ... Parents and children often share a bond that does not have to be broken because the children do not follow directly in their footsteps. ...

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How do you expect a kid to go out in a world from a fatherless family, and adapt into a rather masculine world? ... How do they have time to fit everything in, from work, financial support for the kid, or even having any time to bond with a kid? ...

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These texts are different to one another since Boy stood up for himself, eventually establishing a closer bond with his father whereas Diana "Made her (mom) lose face." ... This is shown in Boy, when Alamein abandons his family for the 'thug life' because he could not deal with the death of his wife. ... Alamein influences Boy to make the wrong decisions, and he left his family behind; he didn't care about them. ... Even though Diana found freedom, she was known as the girl who brought shame to her family. ...

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The effects of divorce on children have become an essential family issue to the society for many years. ... It is apparent that children are more vulnerable to the disengagement if he/she experienced a close psychological bond with that parent before the divorce. ... When social class is controlled, children in female-headed families perform no worse than children from two-parent families on measures of intelligence, academic achievement, and educational attainment. ... Family disruption alters daily routines and work schedules and imposes additional demands on adults and children living in s...

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As the bond between the parent and child begins to deteriorate, children begin to take refuge in their friends, and their dependence upon friends rather than parents eventually takes toll upon their lives. ... In any family, parents naturally admonish their children. ... Families are broken, and more and more, children are lost to their inability to cross their fears and be honest. ...

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(P 58) Not only is Rusty's father neglectful, he sets a negative example for Rusty during his influential teenaged years by drinking regularly and depending on welfare to support the family. " My old man, he got a regular check from the government, but it wasn't very much and he sometimes forgot to give it to me before he drank it up." ... The two females form such an intense bond that they promise to sacrifice their lives for each other: "Y"know Maddy, you are my heart. ... Instead of turning to her family members for shelter and comfort, Legs runs from them and chooses the refug...

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