Family Stressors In The Family

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Family is made up of both strengths and stresses. Families cannot have one of these factors without the other. Even the most dysfunctional families have some strengths that keep them united, while the most united families have some stress. Let’s take the Kardashian for example. When Kim Kardashian West was robbed of her jewelry worth nearly 9 million dollars, while that’s a big stress how her husband Kanye West reacted and walked off the stage in the middle of concert in Queen to check on her when he heard his wife has been robbed is a strength, it shows how they have a bond that could last. Family stressors are events that could happen in a family which lead to disaster. Some examples of events could be disease, unwanted birth, death and …show more content…

After surgery, Kate moved back to her house. Ellen’s father, George, demands that Ellen should move back and take care of her mother while George decides to keep his career as a professor going. At this point, Ellen realizes that George has done little to help around the house. Dispute grows between Ellen and George, yet Kate tries to keep the family together by explaining that marriage is full of highs and lows, ups and downs. (Kunz,2013). By this time, you might be asking why this story is relevant to the …show more content…

Let’s take military families for example when a family member joins a military to serve his/her country, their families stress over safety. Even during peaceful times military families face separation, military children’s change states/countries so often that they don’t have a personal life, they don’t stay in one place to have a lasting friendship, they change schools so often in some case they fall behind, And during wartime military children and families stress over their family member safety. (Nansook Park, 2011). “Pentagon estimates suggest that nearly 900,000 service members with children have been deployed to war since 2001, and approximately 234,000 children have one or both parents currently deployed to a combat zone” (Zoroya,

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