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         Today, every time I go on social media, I see the rise in conversation about mental health. As I scroll through endless videos that kids around my age make, it all has many things in common. Mental health. As I grew up in a house with my mother and father, the talk of mental health was never specifically brought up. I am so grateful that my parents have helped me grow a relationship with them where I am able to tell them anything, but I never truly knew much about mental health. My father came from an extremely dysfunctional home. He has been on his own since 16 years old and was never able to deal with his pain from his childhood. In the Latino community, mental health is a very sensitive topic to discuss. It is as if Latinos are too busy to be depressed or anything else. In this mentality, you have to get over it and never talk about it. My father knew that the family he grew up in, was not a normal family. Due to this, when he was kicked out at 16, h...

      As we go through many changes in our society, one thing, in particular, is standing out to me. Fewer and fewer people are choosing to get married. There can be some reasons that prevent some from marrying not by chose like not being able to find an eligible partner, but others are willingly choosing not to. People are choosing to put their careers first, fear commitment/divorce, or have no time to find a partner in this crazy world because of a time-consuming schedule. It is important to teach these values to our children and our peers because the lack of marriage is diminishing family connections. Coming from a Mexican/Peruvian household, the older generation is married while out of 12 grandchildren who are in their late 20s early 30s, only one three are married. And out of the three marriages, one of them had three teen pregnancies in their high school career and the other resulted in a birth before marriage. With the third marriage, they were married in the Saint...

Hello everybody! My name is Emma Trevino and welcome to my blog! Here I will be writing about my thoughts and new ideas about family relations. This is my first time blogging and I am very excited for you all to come on this journey with me. Enjoy!