Relations Between Us

One of the major controversies in the world right now is equality between men and women. This development has been brought up throughout the last century often. One movement we can look at that has made equality more prominent is the ability for women to vote. Since then other movements of equalizing the genders have been pushing the boundaries that were once set. Woman can be lawyers, when once that wasn't common and looked down upon. Men can be nurses, which was stereotypical a women's job. These revolutions are expanding more and more each day. However, is this ideal of equality pushing a boundary that we shouldn't consider? This ideal of equality is close to me and actually has influenced my job career immensely. I will touch more on later. However, equality between men and women is a constant battle between the sexes. Is there truly a difference between them? Equality between genders is commonly seen as "anything a man can do, a woman can do too." To m...

I grew up in a smaller town in Utah until my nineteenth birthday. This effected my culture compared to what most would think is commonly found in the American culture. The culture that is found throughout this area is family oriented. As I have gotten older, I have found that my family have drifted away from each other. We have grown up, moved away, and have tried to live our own lives. In general, this is just a natural aspect of life. However, I have found that being away from my family has led me to put up barriers around myself to keep my personal life away from them. There are some aspects in my life that I should share with my family, yet because of this divided life style, I no longer feel comfortable enough to share with them. No doubt, they must feel the same with me. I have thought about this for some time, about how my family and I used to be so close together and now, as we are far away, has driven that rift between us. The closeness my family had growing ...

You owe me. Have you ever said that before? "You owe me." To my personal knowledge, I have never vocalized this statement to anyone on a serious level. I may have said it in passing. However, how does "you owe me" apply to a family? Shouldn't families just be willing to give and not worry about receiving. The culture I grew up in suggests that I should be willing to sacrifice what I have for another individual. Furthermore, being willing to pay someone's debt without wanting anything in return. After contemplating this for a short time, I find that my actions and my thoughts are at some what of a dissonance. I find myself starting to distance myself from those that ask far too much from me. Why is that? This ideal of "you owe me" is actually a theory that helps create, or destroy, a family. It is known as the Exchange Theory. In essence, the theory is defined as receiving more reward and lower costs in our exchanges  with others. Cos...

"Don't tell me how many kids I should have. That is my choice and my choice alone!" Well, as a college brat myself, I don't have kids. So as a single adult I don't have any place to tell you what you should do or not. But if I could tell you that you should have 2.13 kids to get rich--then those who are a poor college brat like me you should listen to me. I believe we are for the most part all aware of the Baby Boom. After World War II,  there was an explosion of children being born. In just a short eighteen years, there was an increase of 450 million children born throughout the world. Not too long after, many individuals began to fear for their lives about a thought that they truly never considered before. What about overpopulation? Overpopulation Did you know that if we accumulated everyone in the whole world per family and gave each an acre to live on (how many of you have an acre now?) EVERYONE will be able to live in the state of Texas. That...

Welcome to the blog, my friends! I am so excited to be able to begin blogging about what I love most. Relationships between each another, and more importantly in a family unit, is very critical in this world that is blurring the lines of stability when it comes to the family. Found in this blog will be posts based off social science studies. Subjects about communication, parenting skills, dating, finances, gender, so forth...will be discussed here. With that in mind, I will try my best to exclude my biases from each post, while rather offering insights about what the statistics and research has shown. However, since it is a blog, don't be surprised or shock if I do insert my opinions as well. It's the luck of the draw when it comes to blogs. I am open to questions, comments, and suggestions too. Post away! A little bit about your author that you might want to know. I am a Family and Marriage Studies major with the goal of doing family therapy for the United States military....