The Family: A Christian Perspective On The Contemporary Home

book “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman, the author writes about the importance of communicating with your spouse in a language that fulfills their love tank. Throughout the book he uses real life scenarios in couples to help them examine what their primary love language is through various acts and experiments. Love and marriage are the primary topics of the book, and the author illustrates how to understand their construction, and how they function in society. Love is needed in all areas to fulfill the needs of a human and to succeed in marriage. Society plays a big role on ideal marriages and how it should be based on the defined responsibilities and rights of husbands and wives.

“Discovering Love” is an article about the definition of love and the different aspects, such as how it works and where you get it. Developmental psychologist Harry Harlow is the main contributor to this study. Harlow was particularly interested in how early life experiences, specifically interaction with one’s mother or primary caregiver, impact an individual’s ability to love and be loved by others later in life.

Some impacts kids struggle with could be expressing emotions, lacking self-esteem or having a bad relationship with their parents. When parents do not verbally express their love, it can have a lasting effect on a child’s emotional development. Without hearing “I love you,” they may feel uncertain about their parents’ feelings, which can lead to insecurities about their own worth and

“Love begins at home and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put into that action.” This quote from Mother Teresa is telling us we need to show love towards our families. Sometimes our lives can be so busy and confusing. It can be unclear what comes first, but Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick shows a clear path. One of the big ideas is that nothing lasts forever, so some things need to be a priority.

Although many people believe that love is easy to see, this book shows that it doesn’t always show in the ways you would expect. As we see in this book, there are many different ways that people show their love for others. It all depends on how they grew up and who they grew up

As the father would wake in the cold, he’d warm the house. He wouldn't do it for himself, he'd do it for his family, for his children. Love can't be measured by the ‘I love you’s” but by the actions you do in order to show your love towards that person. “When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would

Over the past several years I have had a series of dreams that seem to carry the same theme and very similar settings. These visions are glimpses into the work which, I feel, God has called me. In one of the visions I was walking up flights of stairs and meeting a woman or a group of women on every landing. Each landing was designed to portray the state or the plight of the woman. These ladies came from every walk of life imaginable, some were rich, some poor, homeless, sick, and of different races, cultures, and religions, some had children, and some did not. I found myself listening to their stories, very intimate details of their lives. A couple of them gave their names, most didn’t. They had a level of trust in me that I could not understand.

From birth to age 6/7, studies have shown, the most important adult figure in a child 's life under traditional circumstances is the mother, and it is this period that the child learns what love is. Relationships between the researched subjects and their mothers were uniformly cool, distant, unloving, neglectful, with very little touching, emotional warmth - the children were deprived of love.

The Family Crucible, written by Augustus Napier and Carl Whitaker (1978), exemplifies a fragmented family system. The family consists of David a VIP lawyer, Carolyn an angry mother, Claudia an enraged teenager, Don the 11-year-old peacemaker, and six-year-old Laura. Co-therapists, Napier and Whitaker have taken on the task of working with the family using a systemic approach to conceptualize the family’s difficulties. Herein, this writer will describe how Whitaker and Napier depict the family struggles, how these struggles relate to the family unit in deference to an individual focus, and how

In this chapter, authors Jack and Judith Balswick, discuss the subject of expressing love, the level of intimacy found in it and the importance of it. As stated in the book, humans need to experience love verbally and physically from birth till death since the lack of it will create negative effects. Some of the effects from lack of physical affirmation were the assurance of being loveable, encouragement to have relationship bonding and marasmus. In the continuation of this chapter, some aspects of how helpful verbal expression of love, is made and the authors come to the conclusion that articulation of this feeling can help to accept emotions and get in touch with one’s self. At the same time, although face to face conversations

The American traditional home includes a mother, father, two kids, and a pet living in a suburban friendly neighborhood. For many people, this traditional family does not apply to how they grew up or their lifestyle. Growing up without one of those elements of the family can influence how the child will grow up and their different perceptions of dealing with different people in various situations. The trouble with an absentee father affects both girls and boys in multiple ways that can change the way they look at people and their response to others.

As I read through this book, I kept thinking of each participant (in the organization I am currently employed at) that I work with daily. We are a Christ-centered restoration home, so many of the interventions we do are explicit. We also do interventions that are not as explicitly Christ-centered. Aside from any interventions our main goal is offering a safe place with healthy relationships so these woman can heal from their complex trauma and experience new-life through Christ. Many of the things McMinn (2011) discussed were really encouraging to me. I understand the power of prayer and agree with his views, and use many of his recommendations with participants. The same is true for scripture. I was tracking with McMinn (2011) and feeling

For years, arguments of personal beliefs held ground in speech debates, including presidential elections, also when people interact in personal conversation. Family and religion are the building blocks that drive our lives to be better. I have seen people from all walks of life argue or not listen in the concern of others affairs regarding these topics. From the beginning of our education we were taught to have certain guidelines and morals from our parents. Rote memorization of learning, from which repeated speech or exercise became second nature, was how our parent’s knowledge subconsciously transferred down to us. Such is true when regarding one’s beliefs. My idea of beliefs transitioned to a new perspective during my time in elementary

Faith and Family was the ideology chosen for me in completing this political typology quiz. This particular label believes strongly in our nation’s government and truly believe the government should focus and push towards solving more national problems. Faith and family is the focal point for this group and they have a conservative’s point of view involving social issues like legalizing marijuana and same-sex marriage. This group generally are in favor for the government to aid the poor even if it increases our nations’ deficit. Faith and Family is considered “majority-minority” and racially diverse. This political ideology quiz questions were very interesting and some questions I felt I had a different answer for. I did not honestly expect

Throughout my entire life, it seemed as though everything was centered around my family’s collective core morals and an unwritten ethic code instilled in me as I grew up. My family’s principles remain a major part of my life, especially as I begin the transition to independence in the adult world. Considering my family has always been one of the most important things to me, I have always placed value on what I have learned from them and where we come from. My big, small-town family gave me a sense of what it means to help others, how we can accomplish this goal, and for what reasons. Being raised in a close-knit, Christian family with strong values will assist me in understanding how to be successful in terms of compassion and