The Family in a Modern World

What motivated people to date? While the reasons vary, the goal tends to be the same. Marriage. At least that’s what we would hope for, right? As a matter of fact, that rarely seems to be the case. Depending on your age, status, and culture, there can be many different reasons why someone would date. The first most prominent reason why people date is for recreation. This is most common amongst teens and young college students. The whole motive behind this form of dating is to just have fun, relax, and meet as many people you can! This can be great when leading up to marriage and finding the right spouse, but it can also be dangerous if this is the only type of dating a person is ever willing to engage in. As we progress to the college age and beyond, we enter into a new motive for dating, and that is intimacy and companionship. Studies have shown that men tend to look for sexual intimacy while females seek after interpersonal intimacy. Progressing onwards, mate sele...

Why are we the way we are? Why are we attracted to the people we are attracted to? Some say it goes all the way back to the moment of conception and that our attractions are implanted in our genes. Others say we were raised a certain way and that our experiences or how others viewed us growing up, caused us to be one orientation or another. Whether you believe in one or the other, it is important to look at the research to understanding the why of this situation and how it is affecting people’s lives on a daily basis. Let’s first dive into some potential contributing factors that can help us to better understand same-sex attraction. There are several very dominate factors that research has helped to lead us to and help to attempt to explain these attractions. The first one being wounded gender identity. When a person has a hard time identifying with their own gender at a young age, it sparks confusion inside of them and can lead to misunderstandings in the future. T...

Each culture around us has aspects about it that are desirable. Often times we tend to focus on the negatives of different cultures and not see what is truly positive and has an inspiring influence on those around them. Today, I want to look at some of the positives in my culture in regard to family. My past blog posts have been very negative towards America and the statistics, in attempt to show what really is the most desirable circumstances to raise children in the world we live in today. But there still is so much good in this culture and how people raise children. The first thing I would like focus on is how children are treated and that they are seen as children till the age of eighteen. Many cultures, as soon as girls are developed, they are sent off to be married. Or as soon as their sons are old enough to work, they are sent off to work. This can be as young as thirteen sometimes! In my culture, appreciated that children are expected to be children until th...