Discussion (4)
Objective: examine the importance of family for society
Instructions: Reflect on marriage, divorce, and relationship trends. Discuss the importance of having kids and establishing families and compare the experience to being single
Successful completion of this activity requires you to:
- Reflect on the trends regarding marriage, divorce, and remaining single.
- In at least 200 words, discuss at least two advantages to having a nuclear type family (family of procreation) and being part of an extended family. How is being part of a nuclear family unit different from being part of a divorced or single parent family unit. Provide either data or a weblink to support at least one of the points made within the discussion.
- Reply to one of your fellow classmate's postings. As part of the reply posting, be sure to address the points made within your fellow classmates' postings. The reply posting should be at least six sentences in length. In your reply to your fellow classmate's posting, you may address one of the following:
- Expand upon or clarify a point made in the posting your fellow classmate submitted. Provide at least an example from the readings to support your response.
- Offer an additional point of view to support a position taken in the posting you are replying to. Provide evidence from the reading to support the point of view.
- Suggest ways in which an idea presented in the posting you are replying to could be more clearly expressed. Use evidence from the reading to support your suggestions.
- Identify where you think your classmate misunderstood a concept/theory or applied it incorrectly and explain how the response could be corrected. Use examples from the readings to support your feedback.
- Disagree with a point or position made in the posting you are replying to and provide evidence to support your point of view.
- Like at least one of your fellow classmates postings.