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None Provided18 A. In this paper I plan to analyze and compare the Shaklefords in Hard Living on Clay Street and my immediate family. The comparisons include the structre of each family as far as marital arrangements, household arrangements, and kinship arrangments. The comparisons also include the culture of each family. In culture this includes ideas, norms, language and artifacts.The last and most important aspect of my family and the Shalkelforsd that I will analyze is the historical and socail forcs that most influenced both families. This is very important because historical and social forces shape and affects the way the family function as within and outside the family. Sice social forces are things we usually can not control families have no choice but to adapt to that social force, and include it as part of their lives. collecting information from personal interviews from my mother and father I was able to look at my family in depth and I was enlightened to a lot of new information which I plan to reveal throughout this paper. B. family structure can be described in several catergories. The structure of a family is the way a family is arranged or the way a family is shaped, this determines the way a family functions. Eveyone’s family is shaped diffeent, and functions differently The first major one is marital arrangements of a family, that is the number of persons each sex is allowed to marry. This includes monogamy, which is one marriage, and polygamy which is two marriages. There are also sub catergories that includes polygyny, which includes multiple wives, polyandry, which include multiple husbands, and cenogamy, which is a group marriage. the household arrangements of a family is the expected household composition including marital units and blood. There are two major houseold arrangements of a family that most of us fit into. The first arrangemnet would be a nuclear familty. A nuclear family coud either be intact, childless or incomplete. In an intact family the memebers of the family include a husband, wife, and children. In a childless family this includes a couple without children. In a incompletee family, for example this would be a widower with a child. some would say that the nuclesr family is more intimate then a compounded family because nuclear family are more monagomous and conjugal, but that is not always the case. But it is safe to say that the nuclear family is the norm in all societies today, because family comes in all different shapes and sizes. The other type of household arrangement is a compounded family arrangement. This arrangement is more complex. This household arrangement includes Stem, which is anything that is not nuclear. This household arrangement also includes a Lineal family, which is usually an grandparent or older adult chilren that live in the house. The last family arrangement is the corporate or joint family, which is a group of all extended family living in one household. The last basis of trhe structure of a fa,ily is kinship. Bibliography: References 1) Schwartzberg, Allan Z. “Psychotherapy of Adolescent Depression.” The Adolescent in Turmoil. Wesport, Conneticut: Praeger Publishers, 1998. 95-103 2) . “Teen and Child Depression.” Films for the Humanities and Science, INC. 1992 3) Lewinsohn, p, Gregory, M, Clark, N, et al; Major depression in community adolescents: Age, episode duration, and time of recurrennce. Journal of American Acad Child Adolescence Psychiatry 33(6): 809, 1994. 4 Adolescent Depression; Helping Depressed Teens. National Mental Health Association. 20 Mar. 2001. http://www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/24.cfm. 4) Depression. Center for Adolescent Health Fact Sheets.20, March 2001. http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/health/depressionfactsheet.html.

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