The Final Post!

Well it has been a long journey, but now, here comes the final post!

So I have now conducted my research and through my survey I have gotten a response from 24 people. My survey went through a glitch ( so sad)  so I can only say for certain that 7 girls and 8 boys have answered my survey. They were mainly however around the ages of 16 and older. I had asked them a series of questions and the response was a little surprising. Only 4 of the 24 people reported that their parents were divorced  and only 1 of them said they did NOT feel like they had a good relationship with their parents. I thought that this was very good and surprising. Even though the parents may have gone through struggles, 3 of the 4 still maintain good relationships with their parents, even if they may live in separate homes from them. I commend those parents because that is just great that they provide a good family life for their children to be able to have a comfortable home environment. However, there were 3 people who believed they didn't feel they had a good relationship with their parents, even if their parents weren't divorced. 2 of the 3 people considered themselves to be rebellious and also rated themselves extremely low on saying whether or not they felt supported by their parents.

These results surprised me because there were more negative results from teens with in tact families as opposed to teens with divorced parents. In tact family teens seem to have more issues with their parents more so than the teens of divorcees. I personally thought my results would be the other way around. However, regardless of their parent's marital status, I am happy to say 100% of the people said they believe in true love. So I guess it's not just a hopeless dream, people still believe and want true love. And with that note, thank you for reading this blog!!

Update on Research Findings

So far, good results! I have been able to get 24 people to answer my survey. I mainly stuck with people with people between the ages of 16-18. I asked them different questions like "Have your parents ever helped you with your homework?, Has your family ever done regular family activities? Would you ever feel comfortable asking your parents for help with problems? Do you believe in true love?" Simple questions that should show a positive side effect of having an intact family. At a quick glance looking at my results, only 4 of the 24 people have parents who are divorced and yet all 24 people have responded Yes to believing in true love, even if some of their parent's marriage may have failed. PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE IN TRUE LOVE! Thank goodness! And this isn't coming from just all hopelessly romantic girls, half of the survey takers have been males, so hey, I guess boys want love too. 
Well I'm very happy with the way the survey is going so far and I'm excited to continue looking at the results and getting all my results together for the presentation.

Research Project

So my for this research project I am going to start sending out a survey to people who I expect will be in the age range of about 14-18. I plan on asking questions that ask how subtly ask how they feel about committed relationships and their thoughts on love. I want to ask how they feel in family situations and if they feel they are supported in their family environment. By asking questions such as these in subtle ways I want to see what some of the positive and negative side effects there may be from an in-tact marriage, or see how an divorced parent family affects the child's view on comfort with relationships and their sense of security. I hope to send our this survey through social media sites and see what types of responses I can get. 
Wish me luck for some good results!

Further Detailed Research Plan

So for now, I believe I have decided to do a survey research in finding out more information about families in tact. I want to get a survey out to people my age, girls and boys, and adults. I want to see a range of differences between how families differed from those of adults and teens today. I want to get my survey out to my friends through social networks like facebook and tumblr. If I can get some people on tumblr to respond to the survey I know I will definitely get some variety. I can get this survey out to people as soon as I am done with coming up with questions. 
I will be using a Likert scale as a part of my survey to evaluate people's opinions on specific situations of having parents who are not divorced. I'm researching it this way to get a record of people's experiences and see how their parents being together has affected them in some way. 

Suggested Research Method

So, it's time for RESEARCH!
The time has come for me to put Marriage and Family in Tact into action. Though I am not COMPLETELY sure, for now I have decided to use survey research to find out information about people and ask them a variety of questions regarding their family. I think it would be interesting to find out what my fellow classmates family life is like and see what their responses are to some of the questions.
I think with a variety of girls at the school, comes with a variety of responses. I will also reach out to my fellow guy friends (whoo!) and have them answer the survey to add on to the research.
In the name of research, here we goooo!

Choice Post

Welcome back to another week of Marriage & Familia In Tact! (Yes, I purposely wrote familia)

This week I decided to do my choice post on an article  I read that I actually REALLY REALLY liked. The author began talking about how when he went away to college he thanked his parents for everything they had done for him in his 18 years. He realized how much his parents had given him and took the opportunity every now and again to tell them he loved them. He then goes on to talk about how many teens today don't follow the 5th Commandment. All you Catholics out there should know which one that is! Am I right? *spoiler: "Honor your father and mother* The author goes to speak to young adults about the importance of honoring, respecting, and thanking our parents. He then says how when his father died, he knew he had expressed his love for his dad while he was alive, but wondered if his dad ever really knew how much. He then wrote a long tribute for his mother and tell her now how much he appreciated and loved her. He encourages his readers to do the same for their parents.

I think this article says a lot about the relationship of a child and their parent(s). I think it's extremely important to let our parents know how we feel about them, how we thank them for all they have done for us. All the sacrifices and struggles, they did it for us. That is truly one of the greatest loves of all in my eyes. I think we need to reevaluate ourselves before we let a stupid comment slip when we talk to our parents. Yes, they make tick us off, but that is definitely no reason to disrespect them. Been there, regretted that. 

As I'm getting older I'm realizing how important family is, how they become one of your only life lines and you'll depend on them much more as you get older, but you also have to separate yourself from them to find your own independence. Having a perfect balance of both, interdependence, will allow us for a a successful relationship with our parents. 

I think before the end of my senior year, I will also write a tribute to my parents. They deserve it.

Choice Post

So for the choice post, a video about the benefits of families helping their kids do better in school. Families are proven to help boost their child's performance in school, which makes sense when you really think about it. You grow up with parents that have helped you and encouraged you to get your homework done. Parents help in the progress of their children's development. 

Without the encouragement or input from your parents, why would you even care about school? Why would you feel the need to do homework or study if it didn't matter, or if you didn't have that one parent telling you constantly to get your homework done before you watch tv. It's extremely important for our parents to be involved in our school lives because they care about our education and want us to have something better than they had. Sure, we may never need calculus or need to know what the chemicals in our bodies are, but our parents do want us to learn. They want us to understand what it means to learn a topic, sturggle with it, and then excel. Our parents are just the driving force to help us and tell us "you can do it!" when we are at our lowest points. *cough SENIORITIS cough *


I guess all the nagging from your mom or dad saying "Did you do your homework yet?" or "Finish your homework" was just for our own good. Our parents DO care and want us to succeed.