FAMILY NURSING2Family NursingSeveral authors have come up with different definitions of family. A family is acharacteristic group of more than two people whose interaction is characterized by special terms.A family relates to birth, marriage, adoption, and choice (Fine and Fincham, 2013). This essayfocuses on Harrington’s family with the aim of identifying the effect of structural patterns andthe role structure to the family. It also examines the family relationships and patterns ofcommunication and the impact on the family health promotion. This study looks into thesociocultural information and environment of the family, role structure, values, power structure,spiritual activities, healthcare, adaptations to conflict and changes.Harrington’s family is a nuclear family consisting of the father, mother and threechildren, one son and two daughters. This family’s unity depends on their closeness. Bothparents work outside home hence collectively providing income. The father works as a lawyer,and the mother has a home-based business, running a consignment shop in particular. They are45 years and 38years old respectively. Their children are aged 25 years, 20years and 18yearsrespectively. They all graduated from Huntington High school and later joined the University ofHouston to pursue different courses. The father is a Japanese while the mother is a blackAmerican. Despite their cultural differences, the parents try their best to socialize with otherfamilies of the same culture with the intention of exposing their children to the behaviors andvalues of their cultures. The mother stands in for the father whenever he is not available. Due tothe physical distance between the parents (Sarkisian and Gerstel, 2012).Both the mother and father are of an upper middle class which means that the family isfinancially stable. The parents are highly educated and are employed. The ethnic socializationefforts of the parents have positively impacted on the children’s lives (Harris, 2008). The family

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