PPT-Variations in American Family Life

Chapter 3 1 Outline American Families across Time How Contemporary Families Differ from One Another Racial and Ethnic Diversity 2 American Families across Time American marriages and families are dynamic and must be understood as the products of wider cultural demographic and technological developments. Fry Bread Clan. Challenges/Mountains to Climb. looking for acceptance of being Native. Education in our ways and in higher education and trades. Youth participation. Finding our voice – ‘too shy’ – appear insecure. Eph. 2:11-19. What Does God Expect Of Us As A Family?. Different Roles. God is the Father. . Gal. 1:1-4. We are children. . Gal. 3:26-27. We are brethren. . Gal. 6:1. Different Stages Of Growth. Babies. . AKA – LARP. The “Rules”. Read over the list of books and choose . five. you would be interested in reading. . Fill out the form given to you: . put your . name, these . five . titles, and get a parent signature. . Here I Am, Jonathan Safran Foer. As the Blochs are on the verge of divorce, a tragedy causes upheaval in the Middle East, and American Jews like the Blochs question what they owe Israel — and what they owe each other.. American dad. Stan Smith is a CIA agent painfully dedicated to homeland security. His home life includes doting wife Francine, a ditzy housewife, liberal daughter Hayley and socially awkward teenaged son Steve. Also living in the family's Langley Falls, Va., home are Klaus, a goldfish with the brain of an East German Olympic ski jumper, and Roger, an escaped alien from Area 51, who Stan houses in defiance of his employer due to owing Roger a "life debt." Sounds just like the typical American family, right? Maybe not.. Alexandra Deford, a precious and precocious girl, was just eight years . old when . she died in 1980 following a battle against the debilitating effects . of cystic . fibrosis, the number-one genetic killer of children. Her poignant . Seventeenth Century. 1607–1692. I. The Unhealthy Chesapeake. Life in the American wilderness:. Life was nasty, brutish, and short.. Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took their toll.. Newcomers died ten years earlier.. I. The Unhealthy Chesapeake. Life in the American wilderness:. Was nasty, brutish, and short. Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took its toll. Took ten years off expectancy of newcomers. Half of the people born in early Virginia and Maryland died before their twentieth birthday. Chapter 3. 1. Outline. American Families across Time. How Contemporary Families Differ from One Another. Racial and Ethnic Diversity. 2. American Families across Time. American marriages and families are dynamic and must be understood as the products of wider cultural, demographic, and technological developments.. Family Life Cycle. Beginning Family . = Newly weds. Child Bearing Family . = expanding. Parenting family . = developing. Launching family . = middle age. Mid years family . = pre retirement age 55 – 64. Section 2: The American Family. 2. Objectives:. Describe the norms that influence the ways in which marriage patterns are organized around the world.. Identify the basic societal needs that the institution of the family satisfies.. Marriage. Homogamy= marriage between those with similar social characteristics. . Heterogamy. = marriage between individuals with different social characteristics.. . Heterogamy. has become more prevalent and accepted in American society. . cycle. Beginning . family-newlyweds & no children. Child-bearing . family-expanding & having babies. Parenting . family-developing & growing children. Launching . family-middle age & children leave. African American Family. SPIRITUAL LIFE. Pressures on the family – secularization; socioeconomic dynamics: employment, education, incarceration, health disparities. These pressures give rise to an opportunity for societal transformation on matters relating to marriage and family life. .