Essay - Reading Essays: European Families 5.9 (Rg 12, 13, 14, 15...

reading essays: European Families

5.9 (RG 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) What features, patterns, practices, customs, characteristics, processes - in short, what social facts - do the families of these five European countries share? Document you've done the reading by incorporating specific information from ***** articles in your essay.

***** Greek, Italian, German, Norwegian, and Russian ***** chronicled in the text all tend to accept parents as unquestioned authority figures in a way that is less acceptable in America. For example, the families of Greece of James Georgas, Tsabika Bafiti, Kostas Mylonas, & Litsa Papademou's essay place a strong value in patriarchal or fa*****rly authority, as do the Italian and German families ***** Anna Laura Comunian's and Heidi Keller, Ulrike Zach, & Monika Abels' respective studies. Obedience rather than the growing child's sense of personal autonomy from the family structure is valued, although this is slightly less true ***** the families featured in "Norwegian Families from a Sociocultural Perspective: A Ch*****enge to Therapeutic Theory and Practice," of ***** Wencke J. Seltzer article and "The ***** Family" of Eric Shiraev & Julia Gradskova. These two ***** depict a ***** more fragmented familial *****, due to the economic and social fragmentation caused by the planned society of ***** Soviet Union, where a short*****ge of housing and the need for partners to work in different areas ***** the country disrupted many marriages, ***** the greater role of the state in Norway in providing for childcare and supervising the rearing of young children.

However, it remains traditional in Russian culture, as it is in the other European cultures *****ed in the *****, for families to expect more parental *****fluence in ***** decision-making, and also to allow grandparents to have a strong role in tending to the needs of ***** *****. In Russi***** and ***** and Ger*****, ***** cultural institution, although with ***** nations' extensive day care system has freed many mothers to go ***** *****. In Greece, Italy, the sense of female ***** is less realized, ***** both of these nations also traditionally incorporate extended as well ***** nuclear structures within most households, such as the expanded ***** of parents. Children ***** lived for longer with their ***** in most of these *****, partly because of the expense of housing, but also because of a lesser generational divide than is characteristic ***** United States families.

5.10 (RG 12, *****, 14, *****, 16) ***** do you consider to be the most significant differences among the families of these five European countries? Document you've *****ne the reading by incorporating specific in*****mation ***** the articles in ***** essay.

***** *****an family differs most markedly from the other family structures. During the Soviet Union, divorce was more common, due to greater ***** acceptance as well ***** ***** ease for diverse allowed by the Soviet state. Also, even estranged couples might live **********, *****cause ***** a lack of *****. Sexual openness, or frank discussion of sexual matters (as opposed to mere joking) as is perhaps expected is more common