Richard and Jamal both come from a poorer uneducated family. Jamal’s mother works, but does not have a very steady job and his father is not part of his life. Jamal’s brother does not go to school and still lives with Jamal and his mom. They do not live in a very good neighborhood because they can’t afford to live anywhere else. Jamal is very close to his mother and brother throughout the whole film.
My older brother is progressively becoming more of a violent and angry person; he was exposed to the domestic abuse of my mother but only until age 2 when I was born (when my mom finally ended the relationship). My younger brothers were not exposed to violence, but their father was never involved and he has never actually met my youngest brother (as he walked out on my mom when she was pregnant). Both my younger brothers seem to struggle with school. The older of the two seems to have a hard time controlling his emotions (specifically anger) yet the youngest seems to do fine with his emotions. I want to know why the absence of a father can be so impactful, what is it that they really have to offer a child during development that a mother cant or doesn’t usually provide?
Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” is a tragic story of Willy Loman, the father of what can be considered a typical American family. Willy’s father was never there to teach him the importance of tradition, values, or healthy opinions. Willy has spent his whole life chasing the American dream of wealth and posterity working as a salesman. Now in his sixty’s he is suffering from memory loss, he has lost his job, and has no financial security. He never knew his father so he doesn’t have a good sense of his own identity, he makes poor decisions in raising his son’s by instilling a false sense of what it takes to be successful, and allows them to steal and cheat.
It actually can be called a nine to five job. In my abstract I talk about being a single parent is like a two sided coin. Well it is because you have to be the mother and the father. That is a heard job to do because there are things mother need to teach their child the father can’t and then it is also the other way around the father cannot teach what a mother need to teach the child. Being a single parent means that one parent has to do all the work by themselves without any help from the other parent.
My Dad was the sole provider in our household but we always made it. My Mom is a housewife and I have two sister and a younger brother. Yes, we had tough times where my Dad lost his job, he has been on unemployment several times but never accepted welfare and an option. My father believes a man should work to provide for his family, being on welfare is not acceptable for him. He feels ashamed to raise his kids on Government money.
The poverty was a result of her father’s lack of income. Her father, Bronson Alcott was a transcendentalist who was sure that his utopian community, Fruitlands would succeed. Like many of her fathers failed projects, Fruitlands failed as well. After Louisa’s fathers constant failures, she realized that her father would not be capable to support her and her family. Due to her fathers idealistic ways, she grew up at a young age, and took on jobs as a servant, educator, and a seamstress.
This is a belief formed by sociologist Philippe Aires in 1962. The feudal family was looked at as a production unit, with every member working so the family could survive; obviously babies could not work, so they were looked at as ‘inadequate adults’. Parents were also very distant with their offspring, not attaching themselves to them emotionally. This is due to the high infant mortality rates; an example of this is that children were usually not given names until they reached their 5th birthdays. Children were looked at as economic assets rather than a symbol of peoples love for one another.
Achebe described Okonkwo's father in this way: “Unoka (Okonkwo's father) …was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow.” (Achebe 4) In contrasting that to the culture I have been brought up in, it seems that the majority of men who had a father like Unoka responded in living their life in trying to make up for what their father lacked in his – which is the same idea that I felt that Okonkwo's goals and ideas were based on. I say this because of how often he had to fight the urge to show affection or love to his children and wives, and also to his believing that if he told Nwoye stories of battle and destruction that Nwoye would become more of a man. I feel grateful that I have been raised in a family that the idea of showing affection is encouraged, and that there is nothing wrong with the feminist traits of women, and that it is ok for me to have them. I have been raised to always express yourself through words and emotion, and in some cases physically. If one of my five sisters or one of my 4 brothers did something nice for me I wouldn't just turn my shoulder and pretend like nothing happened or just stare at her/him with indifference, but I would
Dickens used his book Great Expectations as a medium to convey his vision of a fair and just society. Two groups of people that had very few rights in England at that time were children and prisoners. Children often had no say in their future and important decisions were made for them. Estella cannot even choose how to live her own life, instead she is taught by Miss Havisham to hate men and break their hearts, and as a result she cannot love. When Jaggers is telling Pip of the children he sees in his business, it is made clear that there was no government help for these kids and that if they were born into poverty stealing was almost the only thing they could do to survive.
The parenting style that I chose to write about is Permissive Parenting Style (PPS Permissive parenting is sometimes known as indulgent parenting. Parents who practice this style make relatively few demands upon their children. Because these parents have low expectations for self-control and maturity, they rarely discipline their children. Permissive parents raise children who grow into adults that have no strong inner sense of discipline, no sense of connectedness or family and will mostly likely have to re-parent themselves, which puts them at a disadvantage in all areas of life as adults. It is not unusual for adult children of permissive parents to feel resentful or angry toward their parents as they realize the many lessons they were not taught as children because their parents were so desperate to not make waves at any cost,by being the “cool mom”.