American Lives

Family is delimit as the group of people united by kinship and is the primary component of society. The family is assigned to honk a society p bents from their point of view are expected to rear their children socializing them, educating them, religious, economic and policy-making components. Biologically, parents play an weighty federal agency in assimilation and the same thing in addition goes for America. The American fantasy of an ideal family, like many most boorish includes the family as the basis and pioneer for the development of the ethnical aspect and perspective of an single.It can also be say that their views regarding families have shifted from giving emphasis on rural agrarian breeding to emphasis on urban and industrialized way. Looking at a historical point of view, it can be said that this change or shifting in the family build and representation and the family structure itself had occurred during the time of American change where the family is conside red to be a productive unit and dress space are included in spite of appearance a family house. Work and home had only been separated during the nub of the nineteenth century.By this time, the family had been viewed as a form of refutation of an single(a) against the framework world. The family is then said to comfort its members especially the young ones against the disturbance brought by the material world. Also during this time, family values together with those causes and effects of the problems and crises that the family go about are being studied. The role and value of cash and as well employment had also been a great influence in the features of family lives.Cultural and ethnic diversities in the family aliveness together with the familys classification whether upper, affectionateness or lower classes are also being looked at. The relationships and effects of the family and its relation and relevance to todays students are also examined. This is because the family is considered in the United States as an institution that is deeply rooted for its effects on an individual plays a very significant role in the formation of his or her personal identity, beliefs and spirit.Every individual members of the family go throughks to find and meet his or her personal unavoidably inside the family that he or she belongs. Although the family is treasured and considered as a group and should remain as a group, the individuality of each member is not all submerged in the family. An individuals personality and characteristics are developed through their interplay among the members of the family.When an individual reaches the seventh grade, he or she experiences some(prenominal) changes that can be considered as a break off of his or her outgrowth that includes almost every aspect of his or her life such as his or her psychological, physical and as well as mental growth. By this time, the family answers several important questions of an individual espec ially when it comes to their personality and belongingness, although the family whitethorn not answer these questions directly. Students are able to represent better their personality, who they are as viewed by the society by looking at their own families.The role and position of the adolescents in the family also plays an important part in for all the members of the family. How the parents with their children are also an important factor for the students to be able to understand that conflicts within the family is a usual and normal situation. Conflicts can be considered as a natural part and font that happens within family members. Through the used of several activities, students will be able to have a discharge view about themselves and as well as their families.Through various activities, students are able to understand and see and realized the distinction and are able to purpose for themselves what are facts and myths regarding American families. By this time, the students are also able to formulate a kind of life that they want to live and as well as the kind of family that they would like to have in their future. Family actually plays an important role in the development of an individual and their personality. Works Cited Richardson, L. Images of the American Family. 2007. 04 December 2007