Week 3

This week we went over some terms that we had been quizzed on. I'm interested in pathogenic families and why they are okay with ultimately disowning members of the family if they step out of the family connections or go against the normal family rules. Granted I can understand not being proud of decisions made by some family members and not enabling bad behavior/choices, but straight up "kicking" them out of the family till they decide their choice is wrong? That's way to extreme and yes it will hurt both sides, but if it's not a harmful choice like not going after the career you've always wanted them to go after or joining another religion when you've raised them a completely different way, it doesn't make sense. Even if they are making harmful decisions like drug or alcohol abuse, infidelity, or even becoming a wicken, the worst thing you can do it leave them alone and abandon them. If they a strong individual the only thing your accomplishing is severing personal ties and support. I feel like being open about not being proud of their decisions or talking to them about getting help would be so much more beneficial. On Friday we spoke about salary and we got a little caught up in women getting paid less then men and why. A lot of the points brought up were definitely understandable, such a women with doctorates tend to do different things with their degree then man which pay less, or they choose not to work as many hours. These are points that I completely agree with as to why there might be a different in pay. As for different ethnic backgrounds getting paid less I feel like it might have something to do with opportunity. Not very long ago it was difficult for African Americans or Hispanics to go to a higher level of education and they might still be trying to rise above that and may not have those opportunities yet. Just a theory though, I'm not entirely sure as to why. See you next week...