Digging Deeper Into Families

This was our first week of class, i learned a lot about families. This week we talked a lot about societal trends in families.

I am so excited that i will get to blog about all that i have learned for this class! :)

-passion allows you to attain deeper learning.

how do you affect your family? we talked a lot about how our families are and how we impact them.

Here are some stats we learned this week that i found to be very interesting:

- Premarital sex has increased
- Unwed Mothers has increased
- 40% of kids are born out of wedlock ( 70% for African- American Families)
- Birth rates are decreasing ( not having kids)
- Divorce rates are increased
- 75% of Americans have never been divorced


* All divorce spikes influence each other.

we talked about which of these statistics are significant, interesting or incidental.

The significant ones are: PreMarital Sex, Unwed Mothers, Birth Rates, Divorce
The interesting ones are Marriage age has increased
None of the above are incidental.

As you can see this week we learned a lot about things that are very significant to our society. They are all things that we should be educated about and aware of.

I am excited to continue to learn about the family and how i can help change and influence it for the better.