Design a 3-generational genogram of each a family highlighting family interactional patterns.
Complete a worksheet identifying the national origin, religion, language, economic class, work history
Write a 2/3 page report that compares and contrasts their personal family information with a minimum of three (3) current trends in today’s families, as described in the text: shifts in gender roles, increase in divorce rates, decline in rates of marriage, rise in cohabitation, same sex-marriage/couples, increase in singlehood, unmarried parenthood, choosing to remain childless, single parent families/blended families.
Demonstrate how these trends are or are not evident in the student’s family over time.
Influence of context and assumptions:
By analyzing their research and integrating the data, students will explain how families have evolved over time and how certain trends have impacted changes in the family structure. Students will then make assumptions as to why these changes have occurred. They will address the specific influences (societal, economic political, educational, etc.), and make further assumptions as to how the trends may continue to evolve in the future.- Student position:
Given the changing nature of family, students will describe what they believe the makeup of the average family of 2070 will be. They will specifically predict how the roles of men, women, and children will change.
Students will explain how their Genogram/Family Heritage Worksheet support their predictions. Has it demonstrated a shift in the roles of men, women, and children?
Students will also express how their personal opinions of family been affected by this critical thinking project?
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