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American Family Values, 2007.
This paper examines the decline noted in the American family values.
988 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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In this article, the writer points out that there are many studies which assert that there has been a strong and even radical decline in American family values since the 1950s. The writer maintains that one of the main aspects leading to this decline is that the centrality and importance of marriage in society has also suffered a steady decline since the 1950s. Firther the writer claims that the values associated with different gender roles have changed as a result of the changes in the nature and structure of the family. In conclusion, the writer points out that the decline in traditional family values since 1950 is a fact that is evidenced in many research studies.
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"This is supported by statistics which show that the proportion of adults who have never been married rose from 15% to 23% between 1972 and 1998. There has also been a concomitant increase in the divorce rate. These aspects have all contributed to the changing values in the family."
"For example, the values associated with different gender roles have changed as a result of the changes in the nature and structure of the family. The value system in the traditional nuclear family was dependent on gender role differentiation and responsibilities. These roles, which created certain values and norms associate with the sexes, were disturbed by social events such as the increasing participation of women in the workforce since 1950. This altered the responsibility structures and values attached to the concept of the mother as the 'homemaker'."
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Teaching Family Values in Schools, 2002.
This paper is a persuasive essay on teaching family values, the basic code for all civilized societies, respect for one's self and for others.
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses that 'family values' goes back to the Founding Fathers and was once as important as intellectual development. The author feels that changes in the "family" mean that the schools are in a better to explore social issues and citizen responsibility. The author suggests that a child's curriculum should include honesty, respect, citizenship and a respect for others.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Family Values
Variables Affecting Families
Importance of Teaching Values in Schools
Conclusion
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"Teaching values within the educational system in this country goes back to the days of our Founding Fathers. "Thomas Jefferson's 'Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge' argued for an educational system that would fortify citizens with moral probity to resist the schemes of the enemies of liberty" (Bennett 1995). Benjamin Franklin in his 'Proposals Relating to the Education of the Young,' "prescribed the study of ethics in an instructional program that would seek to instill 'benignity of mind'" (Bennett 1995). Citizenship awareness is as important today as it was in the 18th Century."
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Family Values in Farley Mowat's Novel "Never Cry Wolf", 2001.
A comparison which holds up the family values of wolves as an example to human society.
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, $ 45.95
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This essay holds up the family values of the wolves in Farley Mowat's novel "Never Cry Wolf" as an example to human society and argues that the wolves' values are superior to humans'.
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"Humans can improve many of their family values from wolves; especially after reading Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat, one can sense that wolves have stronger values than humans. While reading, one can see the strong family ties, the depth of the relationship between George and Angeline, and how the wolves use their supplies efficiently. This book shows that the ideal community for people is the community that the wolves have already made."
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Nancy Folbre's "The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values", 2004.
This paper reviews Nancy Folbre's "The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values", which discusses how families are adversely affected by today's economics.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper explains that there is a conflict in our society between the economics of supply and demand and family values. The author points out that Folbre feels the problems of the welfare system are a direct result of the government's lack of providing care for its citizens. The paper relates that, originally, school schedules were established in the days when farm families needed children to help with crops; but, today, this model is nothing more than an example of economic inefficiency.
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"The economic value of care giving has never been established and remains undervalued. So how do women who are the traditional caregivers move out of that role without feeling guilty because they are not living up to their familial obligations? There must be mutual responsibility when both parties maintain careers or work to enhance the quality of family life and maintain standards of living."
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Family and Health Values, 2008.
A study of family values, attitudes, and behaviors towards meeting the health needs of its members.
1,570 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 51.95
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This paper takes a look at the health values, attitudes, and behaviors of the family system. It discusses the role the family plays in teaching healthy behaviors and in caring for its sick members. It examines how the family functions in relation to the external environment to meet its health needs. New approaches to health care involving increased family participation are also discussed such as family-centered care, Orem's self-care theory, Newman's theory of health, and the Calgary family assessment model. The paper concludes that the most useful is the Calgary family assessment model because it incorporates all of the other models in some way.
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"The concept of family most commonly used in my area of nursing practice is one where both the patient and family is considered to be the unit of care. It is the patient who is the actual focus and is predominant while the family is given secondary focus. This concept of family conforms to the first way nursing is conceptualized as a context to the patient (Friedman, Bowden & Jones, 2003). The family is more perceived as a consultant in our practice, and there is minimal involvement of the family in the patient's plan of care. The family mainly is viewed as the patient's primary social support resource."
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Love Medicine: Family Values Among the Dispossessed, 2002.
An analysis of Louise Erdrich's tale of characters linked in confusing extended family relationships who seek meaningful connection through tribal kinship.
2,520 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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Louise Erdrich uses her disjointed multiple narrative style to represent the similarly fragmented lives of her Native American characters whose home lives and family values cannot be expected to be what mainstream America would consider "normal" because their native traditions are no longer intact. Everything that their ancestors once stood for has been destroyed. The original natives of this continent, are now outsiders, alienated from the value systems established by the newcomers in their own homeland.
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"Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine is "a collection of interrelated short stories" ("Voices from the Gaps") with different narrators, about a group of Native Americans who are connected in confusing extended family relationships. As critics point out, telling stories in this disjointed way is part of the Anishinabe oral tradition in which characters evolve in stories told episodically over time (Stokes). Love Medicine centers around four Anishinabe* families, and although the Morrissey's, Lamartines, Kashpaws and Pillagers don't always get along, the underlying connectedness of the separate individuals is vital to these stories. In Louise Erdrich's world of dispossessed, alienated Native Americans, boundaries between families and kinship ties are often obscured and connections need to be discovered. For Erdrich's characters, biological ties and nuclear families are less important than tribal kinship."
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Values of Family, 2002.
A critical look at the encoding of meaning within mass-media texts and subsequent decoding by the audience.
1,386 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper considers how mass media texts are encoded with many levels of meaning, all of which are consciously constructed, and how these representations of meaning are understood in various ways by audiences. It does so by examining how gender is represented in the context of the protagonist of the show Family Guy and his interactions with those around him.
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"The text which I have chosen to discuss is Fox-Tv's series "Family Guy" which aired from April 1999 to about February 2002. It is essentially an animated Sit-Com depicting white middle class American suburbia in contemporary times. The forcus of the show is on one man, the "head" of a family, and his interactions with himself, his family, his neighbors, and the world around him."
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The Families in "Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Borrowers", 2006.
A comparison of the families and their experiences in the novels "Swiss Family Robinson" and "The Borrowers".
2,120 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper studies the family members and dynamics in two American novels about marooned families. The paper compares the personalities and character traits of the matriarchs and patriarchs, as well as the children. Another similarity discussed is the scenes in which the families are forced to venture into unknown territory in order to survive. The paper also illustrates how both books reinforce the traditional values of the nuclear family. In fact, the paper concludes that the most important lesson from these books is that the family will pull together to surmount obstacles and to counteract adversity.
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"The Robinsons reached their unlikely new home when they were shipwrecked on their way to settle in a place that was not their home. We are not told how the Borrowers came to be living under the floor, but we do find out that at one time there was a colony of Borrowers, some of whom were extended family, living in the same house. Both environments require the participation of both mother and father to survive. In both, the father leaves the home every day to obtain the things necessary for survival. In both, the mothers stay home and prepare meals, provide clothing and keep the home comfortable and clean. In both, the home - no matter how undesirably located - is a haven for the family, the place where they feel safe and where they enjoy each other's company."
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Moral Philosophy and Family, 2005.
This paper defines and discusses the subject of family and family values.
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This ethics essay uses moral philosophy to discuss the issue of family values. First, family and family values are defined and discussed, according to contemporary viewpoints and descriptions (the religious right, alternative marriages/parents, etc.). Then the issue is looked at with each of the following ethical/moral philosophies: ethical egoism, ethical relativism, and utilitarianism. Finally, the writer offers a personal point of view, based on one of the philosophies.
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"This is such a loaded phrase when used today, with so many meanings and so few people agreeing on which meaning is correct, much less if it is properly implemented in society. First, the meaning of the term "family" is questioned. Does this mean a traditional nuclear family or does it mean any loving support system? Has the term changed or is it static, based on tradition? Secondly, what exact values, if any, should a family possess? Do these values change when the meaning of family changes? While these issues only further complicate the issue of family values, in our polarized, partisan world there seem to be two warring camps who define two main concepts of family and family values. This essay will look at how each of these factions stands on this issue. Then each stance will be weighed against three of the main moral philosophies."
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The Changing Nature of the Family, 2002.
An evaluation of how family life and values have changed since World War II to the present.
2,591 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper attempts to look at some of the changes in the family by comparing the modern family of today with the family of the post World War II generation. It does this by interviewing a women born post World War II and assessing the structure of the then family unit, the role of the parents and children and discipline. It compares attitudes to issues such as children born out of wedlock and adoption, then and now and shows how there are two characteristics of the modern society that account for most of the differences. Firstly, women are now working resulting in a two-income family becoming the norm and the high rate of divorce has led to a rise single-parent families.
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"This can be compared to the modern treatment of children born out of wedlock and children being adopted out. Firstly, children being born out of wedlock is no longer a 'sin' that needs to be hidden. Secondly, adoption is now treated very differently. Adoption no longer means giving up all claims to the child. Instead, the child could be raised aware of their biological parents. It is also important that it is an accepted part of the issue that children will one day find and meet their 'real parents.' In contrast, the World War II parent was forced to give up all knowledge of their child."
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The Puritan Family, 2006.
A look at Puritan family values in colonial times.
1,004 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper describes the Puritan way of life during colonial times in America. The paper describes the role of the father and mother and their focus on serving God through family life, their children and the church. The paper discusses the vision that Puritans had of bringing about the kingdom of God in the New World and how the family was seen as the primary tool for achieving this vision.
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"At Thanksgiving time, we usually see some representations of happy pilgrims sharing their first harvest with what they called Indians. These happy pilgrims, who arrived in America to escape religious and political persecution were not the Puritans. Puritans were far too orthodox Christians to consider happiness a worthwhile trait. One must remember that, despite being rousted from their native land because of their religious beliefs, they were less than tolerant of other Christians who arrived in the new land. One must remember that it was Puritans who painted the red on Hester Prynne, and their most noted spokesman was Cotton Mather who was, in a sense, a Puritan Joseph McCarthy."
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Marriage, Divorce and Family in Ancient Israel, 2002.
An analysis of family values in ancient Israel by examination of legal documents and sacred texts.
1,323 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper looks at the rules and customs of marriage and divorce and the role of women during both biblical times and during the Second Temple period by analysis of various texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hebrew Bible. After the Babylonian exile, Jews incorporated aspects of family life of several neighboring groups into their own practices. In particular, it examines how women were continually discriminated against and although they had their own rights, they were continually under the authority of men.
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"The prophetic message of marriage offers a much different view of marriage than that of Deuteronomy and Sirach. In Malachi 2:10-16 Judah is said to have married the daughter of a foreign God. Some scholars find this passage to be symbolic criticism of idolatry and others state the passage refers to the marriage of foreign women. In the passage Collins refers to Westbrook, who argues that the passage in Malachi refers to divorce without justification: "The criticism is not of divorce as such, but for 'hate' where the husband follows his own inclination and the wife has done nothing to deserve such a fate." This challenges the earlier idea in Deuteronomy 24 that any aversion was grounds for a husband to divorce his wife. This is an important shift from rules meant to protect and favor those in power to an idea of justice in a relationship."
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Television & Prime Time Families, 2001.
How major 1950s-1980s sitcoms reflect family values. Effects of advertising, revenues, cultural conflicts & issues.
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"Ella Taylor considers American television to be a contemporary form of storytelling that reveals generally held views about the identity and role of the family in American culture. She argues that television's accessibility and the size and heterogeneity of its audience make it the most truly popular and populist of modern cultural forms. Also, the language and imagery of family can be observed in all genres of television shows, including comedy and dramatic series, daytime and nighttime soaps, made-for-TV movies, and even news programming.
Taylor analyzes each decade of television programming as a combination of marketing exigencies and cultural trends that produced different portraits of American social life. She argues against shows that promote 'traditional ..."
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Social Discord within Families, 2004.
Individualism versus Asian family values in "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan and "A Family Supper" by Kazuo Ishiguro.
1,183 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This conflict of the 'two selves' that Asian-Americans confront is illustrated in the short stories of two Asian-American writers, Amy Tan and Kazuo Ishiguro. This paper shows how "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan illustrates the clashing of American and Chinese cultures in a mother-daughter relationship in the American setting, while "A Family Supper" by Kazuo Ishiguro portrays the family tension that arose from the main character/protagonist's decision to live a life in America rather than in Japan.
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"The decision to adopt two contrasting cultures creates conflict for the individual, especially when dealing with people coming from one of these cultures. This dilemma emerged from the prevalence of migration and assimilation of American culture among Asians, who, for want of a better life in the United States, attempted to adapt successfully/ unsuccessfully to the dominant American society. This problem is especially harder to deal with when the individual is confronted by his/her native roots, and since Asian societies are primarily collectivist, preservation of traditional values and conservatism are highly-valued and there is low tolerance for difference-that is, individualism."
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Nigerian Family and Modernization, 1992.
Discusses the effects of socioeconomic change on family structure, traditions, children, education and values.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 7 sources, $ 87.95
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"This paper will examine the effects of modernization and social change on the Nigerian family. Some factors of social change, such as urban migration, have had a powerful impact on traditional family patterns. Such factors have often had a negative effect on the children within the family. At the same time, however, there is evidence that the values of the traditional family are still very strong in Nigeria. These values are important because they provide a support system for family members in dealing with poverty and other negative aspects of social change. In addition, these traditional values are important because they provide a system which helps insure the welfare of the children within the family.
There are actually many different ethnic groups to be found in Nigeria, and each group has its own unique language. In this ..."
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