Discussion

Dr. Apt

SOCI 202

23 April 2022

Family Reflection

It is with great pleasure that I nominate my family for the 2022 family Award for most complicated. In my upbringing my family preached a lot about gender roles. They would explain how females keep the house clean and males do the yard work meanwhile the females in my family did both. They taught me that males had to be strong, but they treat the males in my family “soft and gentle.”

My family does not believe in “shacking up”, kids before marriage, or siblings having different fathers, yet all of this has happened. Even though people choose to live their lives how they want, our traditions and beliefs have been passed down through many generations.

They did not show me much about love and romance, but they did teach me to know what I want from my partner, never lower my expectations or standards for anyone,

Every one of us values family, and we all adore our loved ones. My family has a love and hate relationship; we miss each other when we are apart but when we are together, we cannot wait to leave each other.