Week 1

 Wow! My first post. I’m so glad to be able to share my thoughts and experiences as I attend my Family Relations class. This week we learned about the value and changes of family science research. I have honestly never thought about the statistics with how family relations are in the U.S.A or the world, although I found it is very fascinating. As a class we looked at trends in our current generation and the percentages behind them. We were able to discuss a few of these trends such as marriage age. The average age according to google was for woman, age 28 and for men, age 30 which is crazy! Probably because I live in a place where people meet each other one week and get married the next. I feel like the culture here is that marriage is the next step in life, so a lot of people are in a rush to get married and start a family. I can see that if that wasn’t the “standard” here then I know that people would wait longer to date and get married, so they have more of an opportunity to get to know each other, Interesting to think about.  

The next trend that we talked about was the divorce rate, which is what I thought it would be around, 24%. I probably think this because I come from divorced parents. I still found this very sad though, family’s that separate make the child's life hard, it's hard for a child to see that. I feel that it only gets harder the older you get, but stats also show that kids with divorced parents have a higher marriage success rate. That is because they know from experience that they don’t want her family to end up like that. A happy family blesses everyone. We also talked about back in the day in order to get divorced you needed to have one of the 4 A’s, I can’t Rember all the A’s but I think 3 of them are Abandonment, alcoholism, and abuse. That’s crazy that you had to experience some hard things in order to get divorced, but I think that it’s not terrible that there's obstacles that people had to go through to get divorced. I feel that people will work harder to make their marriages work if there’s more obstacles they must go through. Those hard experiences help their relationship grow and have them become stronger. 

The next point was Fertility rate which is the total amount of children on average each relationship has. I think that the numbers are 1.7 - 1.8 kids per relationship. I have never personally had kids, but I can imagine bringing life into this world and watching it grow just sounds like a blast, I am excited to be a dad one day. From the experiences that I’ve had about children and their adorable jokes and them being so innocent, it sounds like they just bring so much joy into a family which would bring the family closer together. I think that it all depends on your experience's from growing up if you are interested in having a family. If you have a bad experience with growing up weather that be with your parents or just your situation in general. Because I could understand if you didn’t like how you grew up or if you had traumatic experiences then most people wouldn’t want to put their kids in those situations. But Having kids is a personal decision that I can totally understand. 

I am just sharing what I learned and my thoughts in class with you guys. I hope that what I wrote can help make you guys think more on these topics. They're very interesting to think about. Thank you for reading! I hope you learned something :)