What is a normal family these days? Part 2.

     In my first blog post I had introduced to you my subject field that I will be studying; the family dynamic and how children are or if they are affected by the situation. I have also took my peers comments on my last blog into consideration and how I will be conducting my research. In this blog I will write down more information I have found out about the family dynamics that I will be researching about. Also a reflection on one of reader's comment.
     In viewing and reading my comments a comment by V.E.Haro suggested I should also investigate the family dynamic of same-sex families and demystify the negative stereotypes and allow myself to become an insider. I really enjoyed this comment because it has allowed me to expand my research than typical normal heterosexual family dynamic and hopefully I would be able to interview a same-sex family and their children. This is important I think because my readers who I assume are most likely coming from a heterosexual family dynamic and myself as well are not entirely sure or educated on the same-sex family and issues they face because they break the confounds of what is considered a "normal" society.
     Before getting into the family dynamics that I am researching, I decided to write what I know. What I know is a single parent and blended family dynamic order. My parents were divorced since I was three and I ended up living with my mother. The single parent dynamic is pretty self explanatory: a single parent raising their child(s). Since they age of three my mother raised me, and for that I have the most utmost respect for her. The single parent dynamic has stereotypes associated with it especially surrounding single mothers. The stereotypes of a single mother are that the father left for his reasons, she was a young mother, and she has multiple "baby daddies" these stereotypes stem from the inner-city something I know all to well. When my mother got divorced we ended up moving with relatives in what you might consider that "bad parts" of Los Angeles. In L.A. these stereotypes are sort of true, young girls with their mothers raising their own children, young fathers in gangs trying to support their family.
     The children of this dynamic in the "bad area" are what society calls the future delinquents, the wasted youth, and the inmates of America. I reflect on my own life and in all seriousness I could have been one of those wasted youths in the inner-city if it wasn't for my mother's decision to get herself and I out of the "ghetto" and move to a suburban "white" area. I now graduated from high school and now attending college, something most of my cousins from the inner-city couldn't do.
     Another dynamic I know is the blended family: when a family consists of two blended families, consisting of step parents. My mother eventually got re-married to a man who to this day I still consider my father, not a step-parent. In my blended family It was my mother and I, my step-father and his four children. I was raised with this blended family from the age of five to 15. Those ten years were mixed feelings because I was already an outsider because of my step-siblings.
     For children of this dynamic it is very difficult to adjust to because they have to change their whole life because they are gaining a new parent and possibly new siblings. It also depends on the age of which the blended family is introduced at the older the age the harder the adjustment rather the younger you are the easier it is. Also because you are trying to respect your new step parent. There will be conflicts amongst the children of each parent and conflict between child and step parent.