I feel Jennifer and her family do not have good communication. I understand that Jennifer is grown and she is trying to do it all, but she really needs to express her feelings to her family. I also believe her family should start asking her if she needs help, or ask her how she feels. I find it very sad that Jennifer’s husband does not at least try to help with the housework, or pay for a maid. Financially I think Jennifer and her husband are doing great.
Among other things she is dealing with the deteriorating help of her father after losing her mother two years ago she is facing an even tougher decision of possibly placing her father in a well equipped nursing care facility very soon, against his wishes. On top of everything else when she is at work she runs a well organized tight ship and to ensure that everything is done properly and on accordingly she prepares list, and everyone relies on her and she takes pride in getting the job done without letting anyone down. Because of the daily hassles of her life and some life changes Jennifer health has become affected. Over
Many stopped looking for work, paralyzed by their bleak chances. Some became so frustrated that they just walked out on their families completely. On the other hand, women found their status enhanced by their new roles. Left with little choice, they went against the historic opposition to married women working outside the home to help support their families. In the story “The Lamp at Noon,” Ross talks about the different hardships that Ellen and Paul go through with their relationship.
Her carer often comes round and is nasty to her, pushes her and calls her names. Mary hasn’t told anyone because she thinks it is her fault, she is being annoying and this is why her carer is horrible to her. Also people who are dependent on others for personal care. Sometimes people living alone and depending on a carer can make a person very isolated and they may find that their main contact with the outside world is through their carer. Their carer may be the person they see the most in the day.
Vulnerable mothers that do not finish getting their education become discouraged and loose the motivation and drive to tackle the oncoming challenges that life brings, creating for them another barrier on the micro level; it being a financial barrier. “Poverty and economic loss diminish the capacity for supportive, consistent, and involved parenting and render parents more vulnerable to the debilitating effects of negative life events” (Vonnie C. McLoyd, 1990 p.311). Not being financially stable brings on a lot of stress that impacts the relationship between the mother and child. Education has a large impact on a person’s life and it can change it for the better.
“The Problem that Has No Name” 1) Betty Friedan claims that women in the 1950’s and 1960’swere becoming increasingly unhappy because life started to become boring, draining, and repetitive for the 1950 or 1960 housewife as they never really had anything to look forward to in this stage of their life. Friedan explains that these housewives felt like their entire goal in life was to get married, have children, do chores, and cook for your family rather than continue with a career or having more to look forward to on their daily routine. This generations house wives were beginning to realize how much more was out their besides what they were doing on a daily basis as far as looking after their family and that most of these housewives always
Due to her domineering presence this meant that any chance that child A’s mother had of being able to fulfil her role as the primary carer was undermined and must have caused great stress and tension within the family unit. This is picked up on by the child who will often display negative behaviour just before a home visit in the hope that care staff will cancel it. This would remove the burden of saying she doesn’t want to go herself which she feels would be like rejecting her family. This finally leads me to the grandfather who would have been the only male to have been involved in child A’s development but he appears to have taken a very minor role and chose to stay in the background letting his domineering wife pull the family strings. This meant again that child A had no dominant male role model in her life and reinforced the grandmother’s matriarchal role.
Lately she has begun feeling stressed out and depressed in her life. She feels as if everything is going in the wrong direction. Emily has a husband who verbally, emotionally and physically abuses her. She loves him so much but she is getting sick to the point she feels that life means nothing to her. She has come into my office seek help so that she can take control of her life.
She also decided to give more precedence to career rather than her family which in turn created a huge gap between herself and her family. As she became obsessed with her work, she began to overlook her family. In this way, the ambition for the top, the allotment of more time for work all contributed in weakening Kate’s family relationships. In the novel, Crow Lake it was also revealed how loneliness can bring two teens together through the relationship between Matt Morrison and Marie Pye. As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick.
Steinback’s The Chrysanthemums Elisa is a lonely woman who fills the void in her life by spending her time growing and taking care of her chrysanthemums. Her husband is a working man who pays her very little attention. In this time period, women were looked upon as being the weaker sex while the men were the dominant ones. Elisa, stereotypically, is a housewife who tends to her house and husband as she is expected to. In this story Elisa, is a woman who so desperately wants to gain some sort of power in a man’s world.