Across the world, there are contrasting environments ranging from affluent to impoverished communities. Those growing up in various backgrounds can have similar or opposite outcomes in life. They can make ethical choices and thrive, or make poor choices and reap the repercussions. Ultimately, the lives of developing individuals lie in the choices they make. Family is not chosen, but is invaluable to each individual in it. They have a profound effect on each other's lives and with the proper support, anything is achievable. As exemplified by the memoir The Other Wes Moore, the author suggests that regardless of environment, lives can end up entirely divergent due to family support, choices and consequences. The author of The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore, is an example of how family support can …show more content…
They will naturally shift to the easiest option at the moment instead of the more beneficial and rational choice. The author claims that with proper guidance, humans are naturally good decision-makers with no external factors affecting them, “Reasoning about how agents can best achieve their desires in light of their beliefs. Decisions take place under three conditions: certainty (outcomes of actions are certain), risk (outcomes are not certain but their probabilities are known, as in some games of chance), and uncertainty (probabilities of outcomes are unknown). There are various ways of handling decision-making under uncertainty, but it is usually reduced to decision-making under risk by using the agent's subjective probabilities, and it will be the focus here” (Swoyer and Ellis). The easiest decision in many cases can be perceived as the shortcut option or morally wrong choice. For the other Wes, the easiest way to make money was through the drug game. Wes did not make a rational choice because he was only concerned about what would help him reach his
Taylor and Lou Ann demonstrate a symbiotic relationship between the roles and characteristics in a family. Edna Poppy and Virgie Mae replaces the missing physical and emotional traits in a stable household. The examples tie into the fact that not all families in this book match “the norms” and expectations, but are equally valued, blood or
The encounters various people come across in their life define the characters and personalities they develop. Family structure, an experience element frequently ignored, plays a significant role in the development of an individual’s personality. Outstandingly, the family is a sanctified union that greatly cultivates the character of an individual. The traits that a person develops from the family as they grow up in highly contribute to the type of parents they become in future. From the past to date, authors have always created awareness on how everyday family activities can influence the character of those involved. Events that negatively affect an individual could lead to dysfunctional families in future. O’Connor and Hemmingway are not
Don, Libby, Chelsea, Cheryl and Jesse all had at least one parent that encouraged them to pursue a grander goal for a marvelous future; whereas David had no adult figure in his life that was willing to mentor him to take actions that was best for his future. Justified by Don’s, Libby’s, Cheryl’s, and Jesse’s account, it seems as though family-oriented households have an impressive amount of support for each other, which subsequently pushes the children to work harder to find the right place in their community that will satisfy their desired economic and social status as well as their
When thought about, family is widely imagined as a positive cornerstone of the foundation of an individual’s life. Families are imagined as consisting a mother and a father who raise their children from birth to adulthood to the best of their ability, usually resulting positively. Certain aspects of every family are different, making each family one of its own. One of these aspects can ultimately change a family forever and could alter the outcome of a child’s life and their profession. Parents are not aware all of the time that their decisions affect their children as much as they truly do. The choices taken by parents are choices that should be thought out very thoroughly so the outcome for their children’s lives will be positive. The idea
As readers we can notice the book is written as multiple journal entries of the hard-fought times of stranded botanist and engineer Mark Watney. The journal entries make the novel more personal and grips us into the adventures of astronaut Watney.
The Pecking Order takes a bold look into the factors that separate family members within the social strata. The author Dan Walton, New York University (NYU) professor of sociology and public policy, asserts that the comfy safe haven that families are thought to be, aren’t as great as some may assume. Within these households lives a plethora of factors that alter the destinies of each child. These factors range from birth order, change in family finances, Divorce, Death, to even the “luck” of outside influences. What begins as slight nuances between each child goes on to be pivotal factors in the children’s lives as they mature.
Sociological development has hindered the family in our modern/contemporary society. Hillman argues that “nothing has abused the family more than our psychological theories of development” (196). Therefore, he addresses four important emotional moments in family life that affects the soul and its development: False Identity, Relatives and in-laws, Family meals, and Going back home. These four family life moments are essential in illuminating the myth
Because of a more difficult upbringing by their parents, Jeanette and her siblings lose their childhood innocence through the deceitful acts of their parents. This is seen where Jeanette is at the hospital due to her burns from a fire accident and her father decides to forcefully take her away. “Dad hurried down the hall with me in his arms,” (Walls 14). Jeanette grows up in a world where behavior like this is normal and excuses for it are made. If her parents had instilled a value system in their children, or had the mother not consistently upheld a superior attitude to the others, Jeanette and her siblings could have turned out much different. Considering this thought, some live even more atrocious careers and commit misdeeds in third world countries such as Africa or India. Annette Lareau, after conducting studies on the underprivileged, argues that ““poor children may do worse over their lifetimes in part because their parents are more committed to “natural growth” than “concerted cultivation” as their cultural model for child rearing,”” (Annette Lareau, 2003). Because of a difficult life situation, parents are unable to support their children in their educational
As I explore the most efficient way to share the prevailing theme of this fictional short story, I believe that Ms. Frye struck the compelling truth found in this piece of work. Frye (1981) shares, “The final coherence of the mother is only the enriched understanding of the separateness of all people – even parents from children – and the necessity to perceive and foster the value of each autonomous selfhood although external constraints and forces will always present limits.” The author’s narrative style seems to capitalize on building natural and lifelike characters in a socioeconomic setting from an apparently challenging time in our nation’s history while using a point of view that speaks volumes to the internal conflict that parents face while raising children. The story may appear as the bitter pill representing the pains that parents and their children face regarding the constraints of social expectations and economic sustainability; however, I believe the author’s work created a virtual reality tour of this issue making it the best of the
There are many major life decisions we need to make as part of growing up. The choices we make can be traced back to several factors. Often these major decisions are influenced by those we are close to as a child. Esperanza discovers the impact her upbringing in the novel House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros. She discovers that her culture and those she looked up to determined the person she became because of the things she learned from their choices. In House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros suggests that the community we live in or the society we’re part of determines our individuality. The impacts of those we are closest to in our societies often have the greatest effect.
Families often have a profound effect, good or bad, on an individual’s functioning throughout his or her life. Growing up Joe was left to care for his 3 younger siblings when his Dad alcoholic father would disappear for days and his passive-depressed mother would stay in bed. While in some circumstances children (optimum of three) correspond with increased life satisfaction. Joe’s parents were obviously unprepared for the demands of raising children and ran away, Joes Dad to the bottle and Joes mother to her bed, leaving Joe to raise three sibling a task Joe was obvious unprepared to perform due to his young age. For Joe’s parents, and Joe himself, children added little to nothing to life satisfaction and had a negative impact on Joe’s formative years (Compton & Hoffman, 2013).
The world we live in is overflowing with choices and chances. Every day, each and every human must make thousands of decisions. Some decisions may be rather simple to make, or not present a high chance for an unfavorable outcome. While one may decide the apple they picked up from the store is not very sweet, the cost lost on the apple is rather minimal and the consumer will most likely be presented with many more opportunities to pick a delicious apple. However, some choices are much more complicated. Decisions such as where to invest one’s money, or what physical challenges to endure, present very serious consequences. If the wrong decision is made, one could lose their financial security, or even their life.
Throughout history a one-parent household has been deemed as a nontraditional family, but in today’s society it seems more and more common with every day. Although the reason and causes vary, each year the number of children raised by a single parent increases. Most people don’t seem to realize how much this can change a child’s future. The impact of childhood experiences simply set the disposition of adulthood and the rest of their lives. There is not one sole factor that affects child development, but one very important one is the role and relationship created with one’s parents. How a child is parented and raised leaves a lasting impression on them, commonly for a lifetime. You can see how this might alter a child, being that one parent is missing. Child development based off of living in a one-parent household is very circumstantial because each child and each parent are different individuals. But one thing is for sure; all areas of child development can be affected due to a missing parent, including social, cognitive emotional, and physical areas. I sat down with Dr. Carlos Antoline, a children’s school psychologist to see what the real impact of growing up in a one-parent household has on child development.
families have struggles, both internal and external, and while this is undoubtedly true, the struggles that
As children, we depend greatly on our parents to satisfy our basic needs, for guidance, nurturance and for help in shaping our emotions, behaviors and relationships. For children, the family is a highly valued context for understanding and interpreting their development as individuals. As Bjorklund and Pelligrini (2001) have asserted, we are a “slow-developing, big-brained species”, the relatively large size of our brains demands a prolonged period of immaturity, therefore requiring a great deal of support and nurturance from parents (DeLoache, J., Eisenberg, N., Siegler, R. 2011). However, an adaptive consequence to this extended immaturity is our high level of neural plasticity and our ability to learn from experience. Growing up in a stable environment can undoubtedly reap successful development for children on many levels, just as living in an unstable environment will certainly allow for undesirable consequences. Despite great individual differences, research from psychologists such as Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud, among others allows us to organize and understand the affects of long lasting parental conflict on child development and family. Research has allowed a strong shot at understanding child development, allowing parental conflict to be observed and connected with the development of children across many aspects. It is largely the differences between socioeconomic status, culture, race, gender and level of conflict, support and resiliency, which directly affect children and other relatives over time.