Personal life perspectives

Question 1

What are the two weaknesses they argue other perspectives have?

Answer 1

• assumes traditional nuclear family is the dominant type and ignores the diversity of family structures.
• all theories are structural and assume families and members are passive puppets manipulated by the society structure to perform functions.

Question 2

What is personal life perspective?

Answer 2

• they emphasise meanings that individual family members hold and how it shapes relationships/actions whereas others perspectives only look out how society influences people.

Question 3

Beyond blood or marriage ties:

Answer 3

• family (who are ‘like family’)
• fictive kin (close friends treated like a relative) e.g calling mums friend aunty
• Gay/ lesbian chosen family where group of oppressed members of LGBTQ+ see eachother as one and support eachother
• deceased relative where dead loved ones still in memories and affect actions.
• pets

Question 4

Nordqvist and smart research for donot concieved children:

Answer 4

They found some parents emphasised parent to child relationship in forming family bond over the genetics. So a mum believes time and effort&raquo_space; the biological motherhood of child.
- for lesbian couples this is a extra problem. This is bcos when there are two females trying to have a donor conceieved child, one of them would use their egg along with the sperm from donor. But this means the other partner that didnt give the egg dont have any biological bonds with the child. This causes problems e.g if they split the biological parent can take child but the other partner cant bcos they dont have anything proving their partenity.

Question 5

evaluations

Answer 5

• critics argue that by inckuding a wide range of personal relationships ignores speiciality of blood/marriage relationships