Importance Of Family Life Essay

Family life in my community.

Introduction

Families are like branches on a tree, family members all grow in different directions yet the roots remain as one. As one of my favorite quotes by Scoot King states, that ‘The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members and families”. Family is a complex word to define, because it differs from culture to culture and society to society within one country. One definition provided by White paper on families defines family as “a societal group that is related by blood (kinship), adoption, foster care or the ties of marriage (civil, customary or religious), civil union or cohabitation, and go beyond a particular physical residence” (2012; 11). Thereafter, this assignment aims at discussing the family life in my community and solutions adopted for family challenges in my community. The assignment will discuss the family strengths and resources that are evident within the families in my community. The community that is going to be referred in this assignment is a community from the rural areas of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Port Shepstone (Kwa-Xolo).

Nature of

These may be forgotten in times of stress and distress, but families do possess them. Strengths and resources are anything that can be used to improve the quality of families and the community life. It can be a person – community members can be empowered to realize and use their capabilities and skills to build and transform their livelihood of their family. Resources and strengths in a community, can also take shape in a manner of physical structures for example; schools, church, or library. Unfortunately, my community lacks a lot of physical structures as resources even though we have schools. But our parents still have to travel kilometers to local clinics and mobile clinics are unreliable because they only come when they feel like it which can be once in 3