Children
have a need to connect with other people. When a child has a strong connection with
other people he or she will have a greater chance to be emotionally stable.
According to Jody Rich, a High School counselor with a master’s degree in
psychology, three major factors have a significant role in helping a child find
emotional stability. First, the community plays a major role by offering friends
and neighbors that look after and care for one another. For example, as a fifth
grader I moved to a new town. For many young kids, such as I was, a move like
this can present an emotional challenge. Because the community understood the difficulty
of the move, my family and I were immediately befriended by everyone on the
street. This caused us to really feel at home and get over our worries. Second, the school that a child attends will
have an effect. Finally, the family is the biggest support system to a child. Jody
says that many times the child will take after the parent. Just this last week,
he had a student in his office that had been involved with gangs and drugs. Because
of the school system, this kid had to be expelled. We can only imagine the bad
attitude that the kid had, but what is sadder is that the parents had the same
bad attitude as the kid. Connectivity is the key to a psychologically healthy
life style. For my essay I will be analyzing the effects that different types
of families have on society. The family is the foundation of society. Family and
society are so closely intertwined that we can look at the two as a cycle. As
the family begins to be strengthened, society will also be strengthened. But as
the family is attacked by divorce, single parent and only child homes, we will
see a degeneration of society as we know it.
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