Blended Families and Final Blog

 

This may be my final blog for the semester. I had a great experience writing this out every week for my class and for whoever has taken the time to read them. This was a fun opportunity to share about what I have learned in one of my classes for college throughout the semester. I have learned a lot from my teacher and my classmates, and I am hoping to take what I have learned with me for the rest of my life and apply it to my future family as well to help them learn too. This Family Relations class was a great class to learn more involving families and how each family works differently in society, I recommend this class to anyone attending Brigham Young University Idaho, the teacher, especially, did a great job not only teaching, but keeping us involved during discussions to help us learn more.

Throughout the week, we decided to focus on one of the biggest downsides that may come to a lot of people these days. We focused on the topic regarding divorce. We spent the first half of class focusing on some of the statistics that are analyzed when divorce happens among married couples. In some categories, we have seen that 70% of a few things have happened when divorce was taking place between couples. 70% of couples get divorced within the first few years of marriage, 70% of men usually get remarried after the first couple of years of being divorced, and 70% of divorces are initiated by women, which was kind of surprising.

Speaking from personal experience, my sister and I have been one of those children affected by their parents getting divorced. We saw both of our parents go through that experience of getting divorced and seeing them having to adjust to different lives as well. Growing up, I have witnessed my parents get divorced by the time I was 11 years old. It was pretty tough to go through that and adjust to a different way I was going to be raised, but after a while, my father left the country and my sister and I stayed with our mother. After he left, my mother remarried and now we have a stepfather who personally I consider more as a father to us, we are doing good together.

We have also spent time in class focusing on the risks, causes, and effects that divorce may have on families, especially children. One of the studies we discussed was that in one study, when children of divorced parents are 12 years old, the father live an average of 400 miles away. Some of the reasons may be because of work, because of them wanting to be on their own, or communications between them and the mother may not be so good. We also focused on how when parents are divorced, eventually they may meet someone else. When they get remarried, they become blended families.

There are a lot of different kinds of families out there in the world, one of them that are in society are blended families. Blended families tend to have results that vary widely, depending on the experiences, situations, and relationships that they have within the family together. But one thing that is similar about them is that almost all of them do their best to have, develop, and strengthen relationships. Also, to work together to help each other grow as time moves along as well. It was interesting to learn more about these kinds of families that are in society currently.

As I finish this blog, I want to share and testify to anyone who reads this that Jesus Christ and His gospel is centered on families, including your family. If you take the opportunity to learn from it and apply it to your lives and families, you will all experience the blessings that come with it, including love, peace, and joy. I know that Jesus Christ lives, He and Heavenly Father love every single one of us.