wk 5 final

Diverse family structures

Shauna Deville

ECE 405

Instructor Lara

October 21, 2013

Webb, N. B. (2001). Culturally diverse parent-child and family relationships: A guide for social workers and other practitioners. New York: Columbia University Press.

Cultural factors have great influence on the relationship between parents and children. The author of this book says, “Everyperson has a cultural identity which influences the way he or she communicates with others”. This communication greatly influences the family relationships. Families tend to reveal their values to the outside through the way they socialize with their kids. However, the social environments such as schools tend to also have a great impact on the children’s social development. In most cases, the different social environments that a child is subjected ends up confusing him or her. For example, if a child comes across beliefs that are different from the ones at home, he or she ends up in a dilemma. He or she is unable to identify which beliefs to follow or which ones to ignore. This ends up leading to diversity in family structures, as the parents’ and kids’ beliefs tend to differ as a result of kids’ exposure to different social environments (4).

This book is of great importance to the theme that I have chosen, as it clearly explains the how diversity occurs in families. It is also relevant to real-world classroom application, as it explains how the schools tend to change the kids beliefs, thus bringing diversity in their families. According to this book, the kids tend to follow the beliefs of their classmates, as they do not want to be seen to be different from others, by following their parents’ beliefs.

This resource provides a good explanation on the topic that I have selected. This book provides a clinical example of how diversity in families occurs. As a result of this, it has not changed my thinking about my topic. Instead it has given more information about my topic. It has enlarged my thinking on the topic, as it has provided me with more tools to face my topic with.

References

Webb, N. B. (2001). Culturally diverse parent-child and family relationships: A guide for social workers and other practitioners. New York: Columbia University Press.