NEXT CHAPTER is on Families, Kinship and Marriage (Oct 21, 23)
Watch the Rick Smolan TED Talk on an Amerasian adoption (25 mins) BEFORE class Tue Oct 21 in addition to your assignment to take the online quiz. For the following Thursday, read "Life without Fathers" in Conformity & Conflict. We will discuss the implications of the photographer's intentions and impact in international adoption.
Questions to consider about Natasha's Story: If Natasha had been Amerasian, but looked more Asian than American, how would her enculturation have been different or how might her acculturation into an American family have differed? Would this story of adoption been as compelling? Why or why not? Consider these questions from several points of view: Rick the photographer, Natasha's grandmother, Natasha, Natasha's uncle, and Natasha's adoptive parents.
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The cultural aspect of life without fathers is widely affected through an entire family. Without a father, the mother is free to go out and sleep with whomever she wants. There is no stability in the household because man can come and go. This aspect I think influences the mother to leave her children for a man that is not the father of her children. Everyone calls that abandonment which in my terms is likely to happen in my families that do not have a husband or father. Things like this happening tend to influence children, mainly females, to follow the roles that they see their mother play as they grow up with only a mother. I think it is the cultural aspect of what a functional household is that affects the turnouts of many unstable families. The thought of responsibility tends to scare a man, which is why the father is more likely to abandon is family then a mother abandoning her child.
In today’s society the influence to have meaningless sex has caused many untimely births in which the mother and father of the child didn’t even plan on it. Usually when it is not planned, the child may eventually end up in foster care. This is why the definition of the word family is different in so many societies. Characterizing the word family does not mean a child, mother, and father just living together. One thing that is needed to define the word family and also marriage is love. If love is no where involved then you will usually have an unstable marriage or a non caring and degrading family relationship between the group in the society. It is never easy to get involved in marriage but I would like to know how did the word marriage become apart of the cultural aspect of a society because marriage cannot be forced although it was forced in some societies back then. Isn’t marriage just a waste of time to go through when you know in your mind that you may not even love each other?
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