F Personal Life Perspective Flashcards
Stacey
With increasing divorce women may have formed strong bonds with their ex-partners families and they may still get a lot of support from them. - ‘divorce-extended’ family
Clarke
What does it feel like to be married? Does it feel the same for everyone?
Marriage is something we need to practice, it is something we ‘do’ rather than something we ‘have’
Nordqvist and Smart
Donor-conceived children-
Importance of social relationships rather than genetic ones when I comes to forming family bonds.
Leach
The nuclear family becomes like an overloaded electric circuit. The demands made upon it are too great and the fuses blow (conflict). Parents fight and children rebel
Laing
Schizophrenia.
A family can act as gangsters, offering each other mutual protection against each other’s violence. There is a constant demand for attention and interactions can be both harmful and destructive, causing emotional distress, leading to schizophrenia.
People can enter dream worlds to escape reality