scholarly journals IBIBIO WORLDVIEW ON PARENTING AND CHILDCARE IN EFFIONG JOHNSON'S SON OF THE LAND

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen E. Inegbe ◽  
Gideon Ime Morison
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Social Art ◽  
The Family

Several traditional African cultures share the worldview that children are special gifts from the gods to the land and so attach enormous attention to their up-keep and upbringing. They are not entirely the sole responsibility of the parents only but are effectively conceived of as belonging to the community. This worldview specifically places the child under the guardianship or tutelage of a parent, a step-parent or any adult with familial connections or ties to the child, who must raise him/ her in line with community values and mores, to be a responsible son or daughter of the land. As such, the welfare, well-being as well as training of children from infancy or childhood to adulthood is shaped both by the parent or guardian, (nuclei or extended) family, and the community at large. These institutions -family and community- work hand-in-hand in determining the child's nurturance and socialization experiences. While the community sets the standards in terms of moral and acceptable codes of behaviour and/ or taboos; the family ensures that the child lives up to these societal set patterns, norms and values. The parent or guardian, thus, functions as an interface or compass that directs, links, and molds the child’s behaviour within the family unit to the expected standards of the community. Failure in this regard or deviance does not only earn the parent, guardian or family overt social criticism but the community, as well, shares the opprobrium and also bears the consequences of such deviation. This complex process of interaction and learning is what sociologists have come to define as the "Socialization process". Thus, as drama is basically a social art which imitates or mirrors the society in which it is written or produced either overtly or covertly, this paper shall examine this sociological issue as portrayed in Effiong Johnson's play Son of the Land, using the textual analysis methodology. The paper shall recommend a more inclusive-exclusive, dynamic and multifarious approach to parenting and child care in the context of deeply-held cultural notions and praxis.

Impact on the family

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Veronica Dussel ◽  
Barbara Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Family ◽  
Threatening Condition ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Limiting Condition ◽  
The Impact

In this chapter, we will focus on the importance of caring for the family of a child with a life-limiting condition (LLC) or life-threatening condition as a unit, each of the family members being integral to the well-being and care of the others. We recognize that the family unit itself is embedded within a wider context including the health and social care system, and more broadly within its society and culture. We discuss the concept of family, exploring the impact of having a child with an LLC, and how families adjust to this. We then expand on considerations about how to offer effective and timely support and help. We have included parents’ narratives with the aim of adding depth to the discussion, and in recognition of the truth of families’ own experiences.

Is self-esteem a resource for the parental couple? A longitudinal study on the quality of the romantic and coparental relationships

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 3773-3795
Author(s):  
Nahema El Ghaziri ◽  
Joëlle Darwiche ◽  
Jean-Philippe Antonietti
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parental Couple ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

The aim of this study is to investigate the longitudinal influence of self-esteem on romantic and coparental relationship quality. The data were drawn from the German Family Panel, pairfam. Parents ( n couples = 2,364) were assessed three times over 4 years. The results indicated that romantic and coparental quality decreased over time, while self-esteem remained stable. The self-esteem of both parents predicted initial romantic and coparental quality. Additionally, mothers’ self-esteem reduced the decline in romantic quality. Finally, romantic quality mediated the relationship between parents’ self-esteem and coparental quality. These results suggest that self-esteem might be a resource for the parental couple and even for the family unit, as romantic and coparental quality are key elements for the well-being of both parent and child.

scholarly journals On the issue of socialization of orphaned children in a foster family: pedagogical aspect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.Р. Гельмутдинова
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Orphaned Children ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pedagogical Aspect

Актуальность статьи обусловлена тем, что в условиях интернатного учреждения ребенок, оставшийся без попечения родителей, не имеет возможности полноценно социализироваться. Цель статьи заключается в выявлении ресурсов приемной семьи в оказании помощи таким детям стать полноценными членами общества, научиться управлять своим поведением в соответствии с принятыми нормами и ценностями, так как именно семья является важнейшим институтом социализации. Автором выявлены сущность и содержание процесса социализации, особенности его протекания в условиях приемной семьи, определены уровни социализированности ребенка. Предложены критерии оценки составляющих процесса социализации и соответствующий диагностический инструментарий. Статья предназначена для специалистов органов опеки и попечительства, сотрудников интернатных учреждений, социальных педагогов. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that in the conditions of a boarding institution, a child left without parental care does not have the opportunity to fully socialize. The purpose of the article is to identify the resources of a foster family in helping such children become full-fledged members of society, learn to manage their behavior in accordance with accepted norms and values, since it is the family that is the most important institution of socialization. The author reveals the essence and content of the process of socialization, the peculiarities of its course in the conditions of a foster family, the levels of socialization of the child are determined. The criteria for evaluating the components of the socialization process and the corresponding diagnostic tools are proposed. The article is intended for specialists of guardianship and guardianship authorities, employees of boarding institutions, social educators

scholarly journals The Identification of Basic Problems on the Form and Functioning of the Family in Albanian Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Maria Dojce
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Form ◽  
Close Family

In this article the author has presented the form of Albanian family, the crucial problems and general mentality. Nowadays, the modern societies have built a new form of family, nuclear family or close family. This kind of family is much functional regarding the structure of the society, because we know that family relationship is very important for socialization process, and education of citizenship. On the other hand, the global culture and social development have generated importance of nuclear family in societies under transition, too. Albanian society has developed some forms of modernity but institution of family has not the clear form of the nuclear family. The tradition and psycho-social aspects have been the most difficult barriers for transformation of family. Some other issues discussed in this article are conservative mentality, the cultural heritage, the norms and values under the global inflection. In addition, the last approaches of the family institution in Albanian society have shown the influence of the issues mentioned above, but the rural regions have major problems yet.

scholarly journals The Unknown Woman: Protecting Her Womanity as a Sine Qua Non to Preserving the Family Unit in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
T.A. Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Superstitious Belief ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
The Family ◽  
Nigerian Woman

The family unit is the basic unit of society and same cannot (literally speaking) be birthed without the woman or its foundation concretized without her nurture. However, it seems from happenings in the Nigerian society that the Nigerian woman is faced with some challenges that endangers her well-being, her role as a vessel of demographic growth and her indispensable nurturing function in the home. Many of these challenges appear to be caused by the masculine gender. Though and sadly so in some cases as would be shown anon, women themselves are the harbinger of some of these problems. Canvassing the emancipation of the woman has been the focus of many female gender rights activists and this paper aims to contribute to same vide an examination of the challenges that face the female folk in Nigeria and in extension the family unit with its negative effects on the larger society from a social cum legal perspective or discourse. The spectrum of this discourse will traverse issues like abandonment, effects of superstitious belief in witchcraft, death in the course of earning a living, break-up of the family unit due to meddlesomeness of third parties, sexual violence against women and alleged complicity of law enforcement agents in shielding its perpetrators and a host of other varied issues.

scholarly journals The Family and Disability - Some Reflections on Culture: Discussion Paper

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (11) ◽  
pp. 666-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
A O Frank
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Old People ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Personality Changes ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Ideal

Severe congenital impairments in one child will affect the whole family, possibly for a generation if the child remains at home as an adult. Disability acquired in adult life will affect both partners as roles are gained or relinquished. For children this may result in a loss of parenting. The adjustment process to any psychological or personality changes may be very painful, particularly if children have no one outside the family to provide informed support. Acquired illness or disability in children may have enormous consequences for siblings, the health of the parents and the whole fabric of family life, often resulting in family isolation. In some Asian families, the feeling that the extended family unit is self sufficient and able to provide care may conflict with the ideal of increasing independence fostered by the professionals, and limit the possibility of support from social workers or psychologists. The extended family may reduce the need for statutory support. The expectation that care will be provided to old people by their daughters or daughters-in-law may be frustrated if the younger generation of women are disabled or otherwise engaged, resulting in possible family strife or rejection.

scholarly journals The Study of Awareness of the Family History: Psychological Well-being and Deviant Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Y.A. Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Correlation Level

This article presents the results of a study on correlation level of psychological wellbeing of the person with the degree of awareness of adolescence of his own family history. The analysis and comparison of existing concepts proposes a new understanding and definition of the phenomenon of family history. Family history is represented as a resource person, the relevance of which is due to occurring socioculture changes. It has been developed and modified by special questionnaire aimed at the study of the level of awareness. In the present study we took 121 people participated. 73 adolescence group of norm, and 48 with deviant behavior. It was found that adolescents knowledgeable in the history of the family history, to maintain contact with the extended family, for which it is studying and maintaining meaningful, characterized by high levels of psychological well-being.

Gypsies and Acute Medical Intervention

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 731-735
Author(s):  
Randall C. Wetzel ◽  
J. Michael Dean ◽  
Mark C. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Acute Medical Care

Recently, a 7-month-old, terminally ill Gypsy infant was admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit. Treating this child and her extended family was a challenging experience during which numerous culture-related problems were encountered. The Gypsy approach to acute medical care consisted of the presence of a large extended family unit, the lack of decision making by the patient's parents, and several different Gypsy traditions. There were diverse, and often derogatory, reactions and prejudices from the hospital staff. After interviewing family members, this family's needs were easier to understand, and interaction with them in culturally relevant terms was possible. When dealing with Gypsy families, identification of the responsible elder male members of the family, establishment of firm lines of communication with essential family members and the parents, and education of the medical staff concerning Gypsies are recommended.

scholarly journals Exploring the Impact of Father’s Demise among Female Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Rabia Farooqi ◽  
Ayesha Khan
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Family System ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Family ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

The present study is intended to explore the impact brought about by parental demise among female adolescents. Moreover, examining the societal role, particularly the part played by the family system, after the death of a father and its effect on an adolescent’s life perception. Data was collected through in-depth interviews from 4 adolescents aged between 17-19 years, accumulated by a purposive sampling method and analyzed through interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings demonstrated that adolescents who encountered the loss of their fathers face numerous problems impacting their emotional, cognitive, and behavioural well-being. The absence of parents brings a drastic change in an entire life affecting their mental health leading to low self-esteem, depression, anxiety as well as emotional sufferings. The major issues highlighted during the study were life disruption, financial crisis, lack of support in terms of both financial and emotional aspects from extended family. Moreover, the family system played a detrimental role in the adversities encountered. Furthermore, participants stressed that children having both parents attained support, attention, emotional bonding, and encountered fewer social, psychological, and emotional issues. They constantly grieved the parental loss and faced a lack of care, that significantly affected their well-being. These findings help in understanding the problems associated with lack of parental bonding in connection with father’s loss, whereas its long-lasting impact spread throughout one's life.

scholarly journals Implications of Changes in Family Structure and Composition for the Psychological Well-Being of Filipino Women in Middle and Later Years

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feinian Chen ◽  
Luoman Bao ◽  
Rachel M. Shattuck ◽  
Judith B. Borja ◽  
Socorro Gultiano
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
The Family ◽  
Nutrition Study ◽  
Multigenerational Household

The health implications of multigenerational coresidence for older adults is a well-researched topic in the aging literature. Much less is known of its impact for women in midlife. We used data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Study (2002, 2005, 2007, and 2012) to study the influence of transitions in multigenerational household composition on depressive symptoms for women in midlife transitioning into old age. Our initial analysis showed little effect when we use the conventional classification of nuclear versus extended family and transition in and out of extended family. When we described shifts in the family environment by compositional changes, that is, change in the presence and absence of particular family members, we found significant association between depressive symptoms and two types of role transitions: the loss of a spouse in the household and the entry and exit of grandchildren in the household.

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