The chapter I decided to write my
second blog on chapter 18 because it discusses family and that family is a
social institution of cooperative groups to oversee the bearing and raising of
children. The reason I want to write on family and the different types of
families is because I am a huge family person and my family means the world to
me along with the people who are not blood but can be considered kinship relationships.
In my
life I have been part of a Kinship relationship because my dad had remarried
and I then had a step sister and step brother. Though we were not blood we were
related through marriage. I would also
say I have experienced kinship relations through adoption, although I was not
adopted my mother was, even though she was adopted my mother has looked at her
parents as if they were here very own. I as well, look at my grandparents as if
they are blood related because they have been there since day one.
Although
my family is very small because it’s my two brothers, sister, mom and dad we
have my mom’s best friends who I’ve grown up with and consider my aunts or my
dad’s friends who I consider my uncle. So even though I don’t have a huge
family through blood I most certainly have it through the bonds I have and
cherish with others. My babysitter Janine is now like a sister to me, she
babysat me and my sister when we were 6 to about 13 years old and then just
watched us grow and now that we are like 10 years apart not only is she looked
at as a sister but she is also my friend.
Since I
am blogging about family I just wanted to take the time and mention about my
two nephews and niece. They mean the absolute world to me, as if they were my
own. I love being an aunt and spending all my free time with them, I most certainly
love spoiling them and watching them grow up. My brother and sister-in-law
would be an example of a nuclear family, although it mentions in the book and
in our notes that it is a predominate family form composed of 1 or 2 parents
and their children. My brother and sister-in-law decided they weren’t going to
have any more children.
It was
taught in class about the different marriage patterns involving endogamy which
is marriage between people of the same social category. Exogamy marriage
between people of different social categories and monogamy which is marriage
units two couples. I would have to say my parents are definitely exogamy
because they are the complete opposite, my mom is the authoritative one while
my dad is the indulgent one. Completely different social classes not only how
they are as a person but definitely in their social class as well. With them
being so different from each other, I feel as if I am a perfect combination of
both of them. I have my morals, values, political views and religious from my
mother and my loud outgoing personality from my dad.
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