Sociological Perspectives on Family issues

Discuss family and family issues within the major sociological perspectives. Review the situations described below.

1. The arranged marriage of a 16-year-old African girl to a 25-year-old Indian man.
2. A married homosexual male couple that moves from the Netherlands to Australia.
3. The merger of a family of two young girls of Asian descent living with their father and a family of three Caucasian teenagers living with their mother when the mother and father marry.
4. A young man of European descent is seeking a mate from Indonesia.
5. The parents of a handicapped child decide to divorce after the mother obtains a court order to prevent the father's physical abuse of the child.

Choose two issues and discuss each issue in one to two paragraphs. Be sure to include the following:

1. What family values are implied in each situation?

2. What sociological problems will each family face?

3. What sociological advantages will each family have?

4. Describe each situation from one of the three sociological perspectives.