Teachings of Family Relations

  Hello everyone and welcome back to this week’s blog post about my family relations class! Last week in my blog post I talked about the differences between men and women. These differences are more than just the physical, as I talk mostly about the mental differences such as the way they act as well as interact. In this week’s blog post I will be talking about dating, the culture of dating, and the things we should look for in another person while dating.  One of the biggest things that I learned about this week is the difference between dating and courtship. Did you know that being in a relationship such as boyfriend and girlfriend moving towards marriage is known as courtship, not dating? To be completely honest with you, until we talked about it in class this week, I didn’t. I may have never heard of that term simply because of where I grew up or maybe because of the family I grew up in. Maybe I was just sick the day that was taught or something. Anyways, there is a diff...

            Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog about my Family Relations class. Last week we talked about family systems and how they can change when a family moves from one part of the world to another. These changes can take place through different means such as the family living separately and the journey it can take to move from one place to another. This past week during class we talked about some rather controversial topics such as what can make a man and a woman different and same-sex attraction. Though I will not be sharing my personal opinion on both of the matters, I simply wish to relate to you what was talked about in my class.                To begin, let’s start off by talking about the differences between a man and a woman. In class we made a list of differences that are noticeable between men and women. When it comes to women we see that they can be more relation based, deta...

  Hello to everyone! I hope you are all doing well. During my Family Relations class this week we continued to talk about family systems and how they change within the family. Our class on wednesday was specifically spent talking about how families can change when they move out of one culture and into a new culture. In class we decided to do a roleplay with multiple of the class members. In this roleplay there were people roleplaying as a family. There was a grandfather, mother, father, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, and two cousins. In this example we talked about a family living inside Mexico.  In Mexico the family has a good life where they are very close with each other and the father has a very good source of income in the business of construction. Although things are going fairly well for them where they live in Mexico, they decide that they want to move to the United States where they believe they can have a better chance at living. Unfortunately to do this, the father wil...

     Wow, this past week of class blew past pretty quickly. We spent a lot of time talking about the different family systems and the theories associated with them. Just to give a quick rundown of the theories that were taught in the class, we talked about systems theory, conflict theory, exchange theory, and symbolic interaction theory. The main one I’d like to talk about is family systems theory.        When we talk about family systems theory, there are eight principles that coincide with this theory. These principles highlight the interconnections of the members of the family. The first theory is triangles. Triangles refer to one side having conflict and the other two sides in harmony. Together, they contribute to the development of clinical problems. The second principle is Differentiation of Self. This means one having a sense of individuality separate from the family unit. Highly differentiated people are more likely to pursue goals independentl...