Love at home!

 Welcome back to another post! This week we are going to discuss the many aspects of love and the dating process.  Roberto Benigni, an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director once said, “We must hurry up. Let us hasten to love. We always love too little and too late. Let us hasten to love. Because at the sunset of life we ​​will be judged on love. Because there is no wasted love.” Love is crucial to our well-being. All of us have a need for the love is found in romantic relationships. According to research on the brain, humans are hard-wired for love so that their well-being depends as much on love as it does on food, water, and air to breathe. But, what does it mean to love? What’s love? If we think, we use the same word to express our feelings for food, activities, possession, and people. The term love is illustrated by four ancient Greek words: storge is the kind of love found in the affection between parents and their children, philia is the kind of love that e...

 Hello Welcome back. This week's topic is gender and family life! I love this topic because I believe that each one of us, male or female, has qualities and gifts that make the world a better place. The intend of this post is not to brag women over men or vice versa. In my opinion, both genders are equal, meaning that their differences can complete one another and should allow them to have the same experiences.  However, girls and boys are biologically different. Dr. Brenda Todd, a senior lecturer in psychology at City University, said, “Biological differences give boys an aptitude for mental rotation and more interest and ability in spatial processing, while girls are more interested in looking at faces and better at fine motor skills and manipulating objects. When we studied toy preference in a familiar nursery setting with parents absent, we saw the differences consistent with these aptitudes.  Although there was variability between individual children, we found that, ...

 Welcome back, my friends! This week we will be talking about cultures. How exciting! I don’t know if I ever told you, but I’m from Sicily, Italy. I grew up being surrounded by the smell of pizza on the street, greeting with kisses on the checks, and going to crowded beaches. That’s Sicily culture, but if we stop and think, we may be wondering, “What’s culture?” We can say that culture is a way of life; it is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, such as language, religion, cuisine, social habits, or music. However, culture can also be characterized by rules, traditions, and rituals that families hand down from generation to generation. Let me talk a little bit about my family culture. I grew up in a loving and devoted Italian family, focused on working hard to ensure happiness and peace at home. My dad has always worked hard to enable my mom to stay at home and spend time with me and my brother. My mom used to have a job, but she had to resign when she...

Hello everyone! It is time for another post. Get ready because this week we are going to dive into family relations, boundaries, and family as a psychosocial system! Have you ever wondered what characterizes a family? Family individuals or relations? Or both? The biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy in the late 1920s proposed the concept of general systems theory. The theory offers a set of assumptions regarding the maintenance of an entity as a result of the complex interaction of its elements or parts. What does it mean to take the whole instead of the sum of its parts? It means that the focus is based on the pattern of relationships within a system, or between systems, instead of studying parts in isolation. We can sum it up as the elements produce a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. The concepts of organization and wholeness are keys to understanding how systems operate. Let’s say that if a system represents a set of units that stand in some consistent relationship to on...

The human population has always grown, but in the last 250 years, it has grown so much quicker. Everyone believed that the human population would always grow, and this growth was bad. However, researches show us that by the early 1970s, fertility rates declined. But what’s the fertility rate, and how it affects families?  The fertility rate is the average number of children born over the average woman's lifetime in a given population. With a population with fertility below 2.13, the population will eventually decline in the long run.  Do you feel that the world is depopulating though? Don’t you think that the line at the supermarket would be faster if fewer people were there? It’s easy to gather the impression that we are living in a world that’s ever more crowded. For example, traffic grows, and we think that the world is crowded, and we get into the trap of thinking that population growth is evil. Indeed, It’s not.  Charles Darwin once said that any species that has abu...