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 It is very easy to look over the needs of children and their cries for help. According to Michael Popkin, the main job of parents is to protect and prepare their children for the real world and when they are officially on their own. I strongly believe in this statement, because I've lived it. In other parents' eyes, my parents may have appeared strict, but it comes back to different cultures and different lifestyles. My father lived in a dysfunctional home, he wanted to avoid things that happened in his own home that would later leave a long-lasting effect on himself and his sisters, from happening to me. For example, I was only allowed to sleep over at family friends' homes such as members of the church that we have known all of our lives, compared to not sleeping over at a friend's house that they have never met. Was I frustrated and jealous that I couldn't go to school sleepovers? The answer is yes, who wouldn't be, but they always offered to take me back th...

 The nuclear family, which is made up of a mother, a father, and their children, does it really make a difference when both parents are present? Do fathers really have an impact on their children or is it the mother that does all the nurturing? The plain and simple answer is that children need both parents in the household in order to succeed in life. This does not mean that they are automatically going to become billionaires or become president, but they will be able to have a strong relationship with their parents so they will succeed in their own ways. It is proven that those who have a strong relationship with their fathers are far less likely to suffer from depression, poverty, or even drug use. In today's times, the nuclear family is being torn apart. There is no other way to say it. The media wants to be so politically correct to the point where they do not want to offend anyone about their lives that they want to make the family seem as if it does not have to be the traditi...

 Is communication truly the key to a successful marriage? The answer is easy; yes it is. Though it may be the one thing that everyone has not mastered yet, probably because they were never taught by having a good example. Growing up, my parents did not always have the best communication skills because my father never knew what healthy communication was. He has gotten a lot better but when I was young, I was frustrated how my father would react to some tuff decisions in the family. Over the years, he has been able to make changes to better understand my mom and she was able to have patience with him. With the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the center of the church is family. And we can apply the same principles about counsel that we learn in church, in our own marriages. What couple doesn't want their relationship to succeed? By learning how to listen, compromise, and communicate with each other, there would be a lot more successful marriage rates. In the United States...

 If anyone were to tell you that they had a perfect family that never fights or has never gone through hardships; they are lying to you. Every family has gone through something that causes some sort of stress in their lives, and it is different for everyone even if they have gone through some sort of the same thing such as divorce, foreclosure, death, etc. This can have a large impact on families that can affect each individual family member in multiple different ways. My father is probably one of my best friends and inspires me so much. He is proof that good can come out of bad situations. He grew up in an extremely dysfunctional household, everything imaginable sadly happened in that house. My grandfather was an abusive alcoholic that would cause unbearable stress upon my grandmother, my father, and my aunts. Everyone in the small town of Great Bend, Kansas knew what type of person he was but he was so powerful because of all the land that he owned. My father would go to school w...