Week 3...I think?

This week has been very interesting.  I really enjoyed exploring the family.  Especially the unwritten rules and the boundaries.  I really had a hard time coming up with rules but once everybody kinda went thru theirs it made me think about more that we did have.  We had our seats at the dinner table.  Nobody ever assigned them or anything like that but we just sat there.  haha but the only thing was, if I sat in someone elses seat then I would have to move but if my sisters sat in my seat they didn't have to move.  Also another rule that I thought of was that everyone gave Dad a hug before he left for work...if you were up.  Most mornings Dad would get us ready for school and then he would get ready.  By the time he left we were mostly downstairs eating breakfast.  We all got up and gave him a hug.  I think my sister started doing it when we were little and then we all did it.  Even until I moved out and came to school...I was 22 and would give him a hug after he came back for lunch break. 

I also really enjoyed exploring family boundaries.  Even though I'm not sure I quite understand them yet.  I think for the most part my parents had a very rigid boundary between each other and the kids but the kids had white picket fences or even closer at different points.  I really am enjoying this class and find it fascinating to study the family and how they are made up.  All the different subsystems really makes all families different.

Family Relations Week 1 and 2

These first few weeks of class have been very interesting.  I think the biggest thing that I have learned is you cannot just trust what you hear.  We looked at a study done by the APA that came to the conclusion that there is no difference between homosexual and heterosexual parents.  This really scared me because they said they had so much evidence.  But when you actually looked at the data you realized that most of the time they had no comparison groups or when they did it was single moms.  Only a few of the studies actually compared heterosexual parents and homosexual parents.  We talked a lot all week about not just trusting something because you think it is trustworthy and how to find out how legitimate something actually is.