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During the week in class, we took time to talk about the marital and family ideals that we see in the world and taking more time talking about how those roles go along with those ideals. The typical ideal that we see in marital, parental, and subsystem is that in that system the married couple is at the center of the system being providers and caretakers of the children. In a way that I’d like to share this involves an example of using the Solar System idea. The parents have an essential role in teaching and preparing their children for the real world and for the independent life. And the children orbit around the parents, meaning they live with them and they are being taught by them to help them prepare when they have their own family and for the next phase of their lives in becoming independent. The parents and the children are meant to have connections with each other to love each other, teach one another, and communicate together. Parents in the marital relationship are setting...

  Throughout the week in my class where we are learning about family relationships, we spent an entire session focusing on the different roles that each family member has in the family. What surprised me is that I didn’t even know that there were any roles that families, including children had in their families. For example, some of the roles that the families have are different, parents are meant to provide and keep a safe place for their children to grow. Children are only meant to grow, enjoy, and learn while growing up in that safe place for them. The children in those families at a young age, may not realize that they already have a role that helps and contributes to the family. Speaking from personal experience, my only role as a young child, my role was to do well in school, make sure I help out at home with whatever my family may need, keep myself clean and responsible, and enjoy myself by having fun with friends or family. Of course, throughout time, roles can change d...

  Throughout the first couple of weeks in one of my college courses, we talked a lot about families in general. There was a lot of ideas that we talked about regarding families back then and families now in our time. We focused a lot on family research and science involving the different kinds of families that there are in the world. For example, one of the things we focused a lot on was a writer named Paul R. Ehrlich. He has written a book called, “The Population Bomb.” In his book, he talked a lot about we needed to decrease the population to make sure there were enough resources in the world to survive. By doing that, in his book, he suggested for people to have fewer children. Even though this writer sounds like the same villain from the Marvel movie, “Infinity War,” his reason for doing and sharing that was that he had the belief that children and families that are higher in number of members in the family were stealing the resources from our world, to solve that, he sugge...