Reflection Of My Family

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Family is a social unit of two or more person related by blood, marriage, or adoption and having a shared commitment to mutual relationship. Family is where everything starts. We get our sense of identity from our family, which is a strong agent of socialization. Family can contribute to make us or to break us, this is where we learn values that will shape our life. This is also where we learn to obey or reinforce the norms of society. In this essay, I will reflect on my family structure and experience and elaborate on how these experiences had a hug influence on my choices, values and personal goals. I will also describe my future goals and reflect on the ways in which the larger society has provided constraints and opportunities. …show more content…

Dad was working in a factory called (Bata) and my mother was a stay at home mother ( housewife), she was suppose to take care of the children, as well as all matters concerning the house. An example of our daily routine will be, dad will wake up leave money on the table them will go to work, mom will wakes up clean the house then wakes us up and gets us ready for school. While we will be in school she will make food for the house. During the week end she will teach us how to cook those African dishes. And also clean our cloth by hand; we didn’t have a washer machine. My dad will come home at night and check our home work before he goes to his room to watch TV or read his bible. My family belief system was based firstly on religion .An example is, Christian believe you have to get married before having kids, no sex before marriage, keeping yourself for your husband (faithfulness), once you married you can only divorce in a case of adultery (Before God, marriage is a lifetime relationship that should never be severed by human action. In the book of Malachi, God says that He hates divorce" (Malachi 2:16). God 's perfect will is the preservation of society and future generations by the preservation of marriages. God …show more content…

Stable marriage because looking at society trends concerning marriage today, I get worried if the kind of family I saw growing up in the Ivory Coast is still being practiced. Family well being is a result of economic security, in contempary society, only one person working to support the family being it nuclear or extended is not economically safe. Even with two hands working the family still is not economically safe unless both parents are successful. But a women being successful will be stigmatize by society as a bad mother, she doesn’t have time for her kids or her husband. In case of divorce the husband will most likely have the custody of the kids. Being successful at home as a wife and mother and also as an employee is one of my personnel

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