Seth's Family Studies

 Hello everyone! I hope you had a great week! Like I said, I'm going to be making these blogs weekly. This week's topic is going to be a little different than last week's topic. This week we are going to be taking a look at the family as a system. Before I get into the details, I want to first talk about theories. The definition of a theory is a supposition or system of ideas intended to explain something. It is an attempt to get to the why and how. The important thing to remember about a theory is that something is either true, or it's not. We are going to look at several family dynamics and theories today about how they work as a system.  Theories allow us to look for certain actions or behaviors in an intimate relationship so that we can understand them better. The first one that I want to talk about is called the family systems theory. This is the idea that a system is more than the sum of its parts, meaning that we influence each other more than we know. For exampl...

Hello everyone! My name is Seth H and I have been studying a lot about marriage and families so I have decided to start a blog about it. While studying different topics about marriage and families, I have been looking at different studies and research that have effect on families in the world today. There seems to be a lot that goes into this kind of research because every family is different. I wanted to talk about an unusual problem that the world is currently facing. The media has long talked about how we are experiencing overpopulation in the world. They claim that we will eventually run out of resources to provide for everyone. This is partly due to a popular book that was released by Paul R. Ehrlich in the year 1968 titled "The Population Bomb". This book had a massive influence on the media and helped create the fear of the possibility that we are overpopulating. However, it turns out that we are facing the exact opposite of the issue. The world is heading towards what...