Despite the differences in time, familial love is still presented in a similar way. ... Nevertheless this investment in her son does result in the destruction of his attempts at romantic relationships with Clara and Miriam. ... Laertes on the surface is protecting his sister from a romantic relationship with a brooding prince, however some modern audiences have interpreted this dialogue as Laertes not wanting his sister Ophelia to fall into the arms of Hamlet so he can have her to himself. ... Paul's love for his mother and Gertrude's love for him are fairly unspoken yet mutual. ....

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After giving birth to a child of my own and feeling what I call "a mothers love" I began to understand my mothers decision to allow my grandparents to raise me. ... A teen mother getting love and support from her childs father will reflect a loving environment and bond with her child showering the child with attention (Gunn, 1996). When the adolescent parents are romantically involved, the child's fathers tend to be more present, not only because of his own desire, but the mother's allowance. ... I agree that when a romantic relationship is not present, the father does not want to be...

• Word Count: 2751
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Amy is now in hysterics, struggling to breath and speak simultaneously, "Daddy, I love you so much and I have always taken for granted the fact that you've been around and now you're gone and it's so hard without you. ... My sister remembers a time when my parents were in love, but I never had that opportunity. All I saw was an industrious, self-employed architect, lacking the ability to express his emotions while demonstrating his love indirectly through money, food, and other material objects, and an overly-involved mother who lacked a romantic partner and who sought remedy by...

• Word Count: 3707
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The sleeper effect is defined as living with an intolerable level of anxiety and fear of betrayal in romantic relationships" (Journal of Marriage and The Family). ... Journal of Marriage and The Family says that girls of divorce are most often fearful of issues regarding commitment and love and often times do not trust a trustworthy partner. ... "The sleeper effect occurs at a time when older adolescents make decisions about commitment, sex, and love. ... The Journal of Marriage and The Family says that they encounter the sleeper affect in their late adolescence or early adulthood when they e...

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• Grade Level: High School

Morel feared that Miriam would exclude her and tried to break up their relationship, while Paul, himself sickened at heart by Miriam's romantic love and fear of physical warmth, turned away and became involved with Clara Dawes, a married woman, separated from her husband Baxter, and a supporter of Women's Right. ... The Oedipus complex is a complex when a man loves his mother, and hates his father because of his strong love of his mother. ... Morel, is lonely; and she is lack of love. She puts all her affection to her sons, which the affection is mixed by mother love, spiritual love ...

• Word Count: 4216
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations."1 In fact, Crevecoeur summarized the history of the American family, in particular, and the American man, in general. There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School