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To the Heroes it concerns
To whom it concerns, I was not granted the kind of life that comes with an abundance of people who make a significant positive impact on it despite the need for such people. My mother wove a web of lies and deception around her to control everything just how she wanted it. Anyone who threatened by word or deed to expose or deconstruct that web was cut off or kept at what she deemed a “safe” distance. Siblings and other relations alike were manipulated to prevent any break from her control. I was lucky enough to have a sparse few who were at least able to help me break the cycle in one form or another.
By Rowan Christmas4 years ago in Families
How Should Family Relationships Be?
The family environment is or should be a center of affectivity and emotional comfort for the individual, the environment in which he can retire and feel safe with the people who support him, but often relationships between family members are tense and fragile.
By Valencia Sean4 years ago in Families
I Have a Dream
August will mark 59 years, since Martin Luther King Jr. gave his prophetic “I Have a Dream” speech. And while we have made great strides as a nation, we still have such a long way to go, before truly knowing that great nation Dr. King envisioned. I like to think of this speech as somewhat a call to arms. I believe Dr. King shared this dream to not only explain his methods and what he was working so hard to achieve but to hold all that would hear accountable for doing their part in bringing this great vision to life. I believe the change we hope to see begins with us as individuals working together for the highest good. I too have a dream, and 2022 is my official start to fulfilling its work.
By Mya Anders4 years ago in Families
The story of the child and the apple tree
The Story It is said that one day there was a large apple tree with branches, full of fruits, strong trunk and branches, and next to the tree there was a child always close to it, playing and having fun, climbing on its branches, and eating from its fruits, and if he got tired of playing, he slept under the shade of its large branches And this was on a daily basis.
By Jim patron4 years ago in Families
THE UNEXPECTED BLIZZARD
Two years have been since a blizzard hit New York City: the last one we remember was the one in 2016. We got used to warmer weather, not expecting the next one. Science confirms global warming with glacials melting slowly and reality is not different from facts. We had harsh past winters and freezing temperature below 1 degree." These are the frigid winters of Iceland, Greenland, and Alaska. " I kept telling myself.
By Andrew Crisci4 years ago in Families
My Own Army of One
Dear Dad, I cannot believe it. Can you? We are still here. Walking on this Earth alive, and sort of healthy I guess. You know, when I was young enough to begin remembering stuff, I always wondered where you had gone five days out of the week, and for so long too. It is amazing to think there was once a time when I did not understand anything outside of eating, playing and sleeping. I could not read the words in a book, or count to ten fluently. I would simply skip what looked like ”chicken scratch” that I now know as, letters and numbers in order to get to the illustrations on the next page. I remember just being home with Mom everyday from morning to night. The sun would be behind the trees, and going to bed with the rest of us; which is what I probably thought at the time, before your return. I would hear your colossal, red Chevy truck roaring up the driveway, and sometimes go to the window in the afternoon. I’d watch you gather your things like your coat , a small gray lunch cooler (that you still have) and whatever mail we received that day clutched in your hand. You always had one of two expressions on your face. They were little signs to Mom, and me on how we should approach you when you walked through the back door. The first expression would be the one we hoped to see. Your eyes bursting open with energy. The edges of your mouth would be slightly curled into an attempted smile. Sometimes your lips would be puckered, and whistling a tune as you came to the door. I could never hear what you were whistling, but I assume it was a song on the radio that you were not finished listening to, or the theme music from an old western film that was on television the night before. That was a sign we could relax, be loud, or continue doing whatever it was we were doing. The second expression was one I did not understand until I became an adult. It was the face of a man who went out into this brutal, selfish and relentless world to sacrifice his time and effort to feed us, and keep a roof over our heads. That is a small, almost microscopic amount of things you have done for the people you love and care about.
By Zachary Marshall Ivey4 years ago in Families
Why do we people miss our beloveds; when they go far from us?
A Discussion… I know such topics are highly debated & discussed by several psychologists & experts. Nevertheless, however, I’m here to pin up my prerogative, as I say, It’s not mandatory that our beloved ought to be a so-called mysterious woman or a girl. Belovedness is extremely far beyond the reach of genderism as well. I know folks, it looks strange to you… due to my boldish tone of interpretation. Acknowledge it or not? But that’s true, we people always show strange characteristics all the time. Likewise, we explore ourselves more precisely, especially when we’re all alone. Intriguingly we went through several unnoticed values like characteristics, attachments & emotions, and all that.
By Sayed Sumair4 years ago in Families
Family
family, a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, parents, children, and siblings. The family group should be distinguished from a household, which may include boarders and roomers sharing a common residence. It should also be differentiated from a kindred (which also concerns blood lines), because a kindred may be divided into several households. Frequently the family is not differentiated from the marriage pair, but the essence of the family group is the parent-child relationshipAt its most basic, then, a family consists of an adult and his or her offspring. Most commonly, it consists of two married adults, usually a man and a woman (almost always from different lineages and not related by blood) along with their offspring, usually living in a private and separate dwelling. This type of unit, more specifically known as a nuclear family, is believed to be the oldest of the various types of families in existence. Sometimes the family includes not only the parents and their unmarried children living at home but also children that have married, their spouses, and their offspring, and possibly elderly dependents as well; such an arrangement is called an extended family.At its best, the family performs various valuable functions for its members. Perhaps most important of all, it provides for emotional and psychological security, particularly through the warmth, love, and companionship that living together generates between spouses and in turn between them and their children. The family also provides a valuable social and political function by institutionalizing procreation and by providing guidelines for the regulation of sexual conduct. The family additionally provides such other socially beneficial functions as the rearing and socialization of children, along with such humanitarian activities as caring for its members when they are sick or disabled. On the economic side, the family provides food, shelter, clothing, and physical security for its members, some of whom may be too young or too old to provide for the basic necessities of life themselves. Finally, on the social side, the family may serve to promote order and stability within society as a whole.Historically, in most cultures, the family was patriarchal, or male-dominated. Perhaps the most striking example of the male-dominated family is the description of the family given in the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament), where the male heads of the clans were allowed to have several wives as well as concubines. As a general rule, women had a rather low status. In Roman times the family was still patriarchal, but polygamy was not practiced, and in general the status of women was somewhat improved over that suggested in the Hebrew Bible, although they still were not allowed to manage their own affairs. The Roman family was an extended one. The family as it existed in medieval Europe was male-dominated and extended.In the West, industrialization and the accompanying urbanization spawned—and continue to spawn—many changes in family structure by causing a sharp change in life and occupational styles. Many people, particularly unmarried youths, left farms and went to urban centres to become industrial workers. This process led to the dissolution of many extended families.The modern family that emerged after the Industrial Revolution is different from the earlier model. For instance, patriarchal rule began to give way to greater equality between the sexes. Similarly, family roles once considered exclusively male or female broke down. Caring for the home and children, once the exclusive duty of the female, is often a shared activity, as, increasingly, is the earning of wages and the pursuit of public life, once the exclusive domain of the male. The structure of the family is also changing in that some couples choose not to marry legally and instead elect to have their children out of wedlock; many of these informal relationships tend to be of short duration, and this—as well as the rise in levels of divorce—has led to a rapid increase in the number of one-parent households.
By akib imran4 years ago in Families
3 Biggest Regrets People Have When It's Too Late To Change Anything
We all have regrets. Moments when we look into our past and wish things went a bit differently. It’s even more painful if those things could have easily been prevented. If there was just something we could have done done differently.
By Tijjani Jibril4 years ago in Families
