Blended Family Research Paper

Different Family Types

There are different family types in today’s society. There are blended families, gay and lesbian families, adoptive parent families, single parent families, and nuclear families. Each family comes in all sizes and have their own traditions and ways of living.

Blended Families:

Blended families are when two separate families come together, while each family brings along a child or multiple children from their previous marriage. This family style is very challenging in the beginning. Each person must adapt to a new lifestyle. During a blended family transformation, the children must accept a step-parent, consider the different practices of the other family, and must adapt to a compromised family containing different rules

Other children however, enjoy this transition because it brings a greater adult attention. There are even children who accept the other parent, but not the child/ children that comes along with the step-parent. For example, in the movie, Yours, Mine & Ours, two families, one of 8 and another of 10 come together as one. In the beginning of the movie, the transformation is very tough because the two families are complete opposites of each other. One family has a military lifestyle, while the other family is artistic and calming. Throughout the movie all the children work together to separate the parents apart, but at the end, everybody learns their lesson and becomes a big happy family who appreciates one another. This movie ended with a happy ending, but in the real world, not all blended families end in a happily ever after. Unfortunately, some blended families do not work out

This type of family is when two women (lesbian) or two men (gay) come together and have kids. These couples cannot have biological kids of their own, but they do in fact adopt. Gay and lesbian people may also experience marriage with their opposite sex. While being married to their opposite sex, some have children. Later gay and lesbian may confess that they are homosexual and divorce. Unfortunately, the two divorce, but some gay or lesbian couples get married again and bring along a child or children from their previous marriage, as I explained above. Homosexual and heterosexual families are somewhat the same thing. The main similarity is that two families have kids, but the main difference is the sex of the parents. As a positive idea, some researchers say that gay fathers actually are committed and effective at the parent role, than heterosexual dads. Also homosexual mothers are believed to have the say mother- child interaction as heterosexual families. Some negatives of this family type, is that children of this family type may be extremely questioned or considered “weird” to their society. Even though children have gay or lesbian parents, some don’t always grow up to be homosexual themselves. Some grow up and are heterozygous, but as a child these people get bullied because of