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Week Ten: Fathers and Finance       You know, it’s an interesting experience when you go through situations and learn of their importance many years down the road. I learned things this week that really did surprise me and consider how I came out to be the adult that I am today. The principles that I learned are simple and vital to the health of families, but I feel like they are often the most ignored and disregarded family principles to date. Almost all forms of modern society really do trash on the traditional family structure and its roles, it’s almost impossible to argue otherwise, but sometimes those simple traditional ways are the best. This week I learned a lot about the role of the father in the home and his role to his wife and children. I learned a lot about some statistics surrounding the father and his position in today’s world. In a lot of ways, it is dismal, and people really don’t appreciate or understand the father role, but that is a sound reason fo...

Week one:  Societal Trends and the Family               Wow what a week! You know, I’ve not need disappointed by the material that I have been reading regarding the family this last week. My teacher has started our class out with our first topic which goes into the background of societal trends around marriage and family. The documentaries I watched and the articles I have read regarding this have properly blown my mind and led me to question the fabric of our current society regarding marriage and family. This week we have been learning an exorbitant amount of information that I never even knew was out there!                           I learned that there are indeed specific trends that are surfacing in our society that are going to have a profound effect on our future generations. A lot of these trends are not unheard of, actually in a daily conversation many of these t...