Process Philosophy: A Process View Of Life

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“Process Philosophy represents a process view of life that emphasizes becoming and progressive knowledge leading to a perfect society, which stands in direct contrast to absolute philosophy or an absolute view of life that is the basis for Biblical Christianity” (Ferdon, 2014, p. 114). It is this writer’s opinion that in the world today you can see that with this way of thinking, by removing God from any aspect of life, marriage and the family unit become a bit dysfunctional. With that said, it remains a reality as most often, the perspective both socially and politically are in sync with this thought process. No matter where you are from, nation, ethnic background, religious background, or social class, marriage is a part of life. It doesn’t …show more content…

In the 19th Century it was the Father who was known to be the one that worked, or the breadwinner for the family. However, after World War II we began to see a shifting in this as the women’s right’s movement took place and women began to get paid more for working and now entered the workplace regularly. This also occurred because of the great economic growth that was occurring at the time. So as things changed economically, the family progressed with it as well. However, not all was a positive progression as during this time we also began to see divorce increase as well as and increase in the number of women who became pregnant without having been married. These were huge changes and shifts in the family dynamics as the family became under pressure from the ever-changing economics and culture. With both parents entering the workforce, little supervision is given to the children. This was totally unlike the Leave it to Beaver family, the Cleavers in which only the father went to work and the mother had time to care for the kids. Having both parents work definitely cut into family time or time that in the past had been spent between parents and children. This gave way to leaving society an open door in having a greater impact on children then they would have received at home through the training and modeling of their parents. Because of their thinking to progress with the world around them and in the way the world was progressing in thought, it left an open door for their families to become impacted negatively by

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