Family Dynamics Affect Student Performance

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EDU 215 Samuel Moore Module 6 Journal Professor Ronald Clutter With adults who get married not staying together more than three years after saying their wedding vows, the dynamics of the modern day family has gone from just father, mother children. Now days you have father, mother, step mother, step father and extended family members. The effect I have seen on children and students in school with the makeup of the family being changed from the original marital setup. With having both parents to focus on a child or children and their studies is extremely important in my mind which keeps a kid focused on studies, moral and ethical character. When a child is mentally unstable with missing a parent whether it’s the father or mother it really drains a child to want to see a parent and never see them when they want. A child not having that particular parent to rely on or call does take its toll when academic’s and other issues come into when concentration may be a factor. Additionally a child may have to help out with younger siblings instead of ensuring they have studied or done homework not cook, change diapers, or have a part time job to help ends meet because the household only has one parent and income. All children are different with unfamiliar dynamics of having one or two parents especially with same sex marriages or one who’s sexual preference is questionable, I have seen the effect of a child having two mothers or a parent who is a lesbian or homosexual and friends ask the question where your father is and you’re a little boy and your response is what? The stress of handling ever question of being in a single parent home or one that is questionable as a same sex relationship for parents would make even the most strongest of minded adults would have a hard time dealing with the teasing or ridicule. Having a family that is not conducive to the norm in
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