Alice has been married and divorced twice and has two grown children, Kim (32) and Jonathan (30) from her first marriage. Alice grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood just south of Phoenix. Her parents John and Mary have owned a small business in downtown Phoenix for the last 40 years. Her father spent long hours at the family business and had little interaction with the children. Child rearing was primarily left up to Alice’s mother, Mary.
Case Study Assignment: Stephanie Description of the individual: Stephanie is a 35 year old Hispanic female living in San Jose, California. She is currently single and rents a house with her younger brother. She was born in Eagle Pass, Texas on February 11, 1976. Stephanie has one brother, one sister, who passed away at age eleven in a car accident, and four half brothers and sisters, three of whom are from a previous step-mother and one of which is from her current step-mother. Her father was born in Mexico and currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with his third wife.
Prosser is the second oldest of eleven children but the first to go to college. When she was in high school, her and her brother went to live with a family member because the family had moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, where there was no black high school. She graduated from high school valedictorian in 1910 and from there she was determined to continue her pursuit of a higher education. (2005) Inez Prosser at a young age was very determined; the bulk of her life was spent pushing past the limitations that the world would try to enforce. Inez Prosser was raised during a time that racism and segregation were very openly accepted forms of behavior.
He was a stockbroker at one point, but fell victim to the economy and lost his job December 9, 2008. The mother is 51 and a breast cancer survivor that works two jobs to support her family. One of the jobs as a receptionist in a hair salon and the other in a local college campus office. Both parents have a high school diploma. The son recently graduated from Albany college with a degree in communications.
The family lives in Paw Paw, Michigan. The mother (TV) is 42 years old and started a new job in April 2011 as a home health aide. The father (JV) is 41 years old and has been unemployed for three years and is currently on unemployment benefits, which ends in three weeks. The oldest daughter (LV) is a freshman at Western Michigan University. The middle daughter (KV) is a sophomore at Paw Paw High School.
Papa parents were from Plain Dealing, La as well. Jennie had seven sisters she had no brothers and she was the third child to be born out of her siblings. Jennie parents were from Powhatton, La. As the years passed by my grandparents started getting older on Sunday, August 2, 1998 at 10:30P.M. at Willis Knight Medical Center in Shreveport, La a beautiful life came to an end.
Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York, June 30, 1966. His father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, abondoned his family when Tyson was only 2, leaving his mother, Lorna Smith Tyson, to care for him along with Rodney, his older brother, and Denise, his younger sister. The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old. Six years later, Tyson’s mother died. Tyson has been quoted saying; “I never say my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something.
TASK C REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT My own values and beliefs, attitudes and heritage, may impact upon my working practice. As a second child of 4, growing up in a large family taught me that I am not the same as my siblings, I have different opinions and views, and differing attitudes. Being one of four children meant that not everything came my way as soon as Id have liked. I had to wait until Christmas for new clothes or toys as my parents couldn't always afford new things for us all. I lived in my elder sisters hand-me-downs for many years.
The Early Years Theodore Robert Cowell was born on November 24, 1946 to Louise Cowell following her stay of three months at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Vermont. Ted's biological father, who was an Air Force veteran, was unknown to his son throughout his life. Shortly after his birth, Ted and his mother moved back to the home of his grandparents in Philadelphia. While growing up, Ted was led to believe that his grandparents were his parents and his natural mother was his older sister. The charade was created in order to protect his biological mother from harsh criticism and prejudice of being an unwed mother.
I have 1 sister and 4 brothers. I was the first child born in my family who was born free. I was orphaned at the age of 7 and was raised by my older sister. My sister and I survived by working in the cotton fields. I married when I was 14, and had my first and only child 3 years later.