Besides being a great mother she is also a hard worker who never failed to give me and my brothers what we needed. ... Instead, what she found out was that her husband of twenty-five years had been seeing another woman. ... She had so much resentment built up towards my father that was what mainly held her back from giving him a second chance. Resentments are like a slow poison, damaging the love, trust and mutual respect in a marriage. Soon enough, my mother learned to let go of these resentments and focused on rebuilding her marriage with the help of her optimism. ...

• Word Count: 1139
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Other families may or may not involve blood relation, but all families, no matter what kind, include similar ideas, beliefs, trust and love for one another. ... Once a foundation of mutual respect and affection is established, stepparents who then attempt to assume a disciplinarian role are less likely to meet with resentment from the stepchild (Pasley, Dollahite, and Ihinger-Tallman 1). ... The interests and beliefs they share build up their trust and love for each other, and allows them to become what can be called a family. ...

• Word Count: 1268
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

First one might wonder just what this Ecological Systems Theory is. ... So their attitude is usually negative and it may result in resentment of their parent or if nothing else bring question their mom or dad as to why it is just them. ... Hinkel made some suggestion of what they can possibly do to help that I either already thought or agreed with. ...

• Word Count: 1602
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Yunior harbors resentment against his father for leaving them in the Dominican Republic all those years and for cheating on his mother. ... She tells him the story of the day his father left her and they share an understanding of what it was like for Ramon to leave and never come back. ...

• Word Count: 1679
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is a story of three generations of women. Each woman is faced with basically the same type of event in her life and each reacts differently to that event. The event that is being focused on is the loss of the parent(s), whether the parent was known or unknown, and the l...

• Word Count: 3938
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... After I let go of the resentment I had for my mother, I could allow her to show me the ropes on how to be a parent and also how to be a woman. ... I have learned that you can not force someone to do what they do not want to do. ...

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

I wish to delve further into the issue and possibly find what a father provides that others cannot, as well as establishing that my original assumption based on the research I have encountered is true. ... If it is found to be true that boys raised by single fathers are as well adjusted as those from two-parent households and far better adjusted than those from households without a father, what does this say for our concept of a family? The emotional support of a father would then be far more important than our society had ever believed and we could then reevaluate what is really best for...

• Word Count: 4534
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School