Effects of Dysfunctional Families on Children
Effects of Dysfunctional Families on Children I could propose a generative research question in a few different ways. Things to keep in mind for forming a generative research question is are does it generate multiple and competing answers that are legitimate and deliberative. What these mean is that the generative research question should generate multiple possible answers or solutions to the proposed question, and hopefully more than just two possible answers as well. Competing answers means that the question should avoid creating accumulative answers.
What we mean by saying the answers should be legitimate is that the answers should also be reasonable. You do not want one answer to be obviously correct and/or much more reasonable that the other possible answer(s). Lastly, the question should imply a need for persuasion and reason, and avoid producing answers of fact or statistical information. So a good example of a question like this that I could use for my research topic could be: How does being raised in a home with a dysfunctional family affect the children?
This would be a good generative research question because it meets all the criteria and requirements for a good and effective generative research question. This generative research question would definitely produce multiple answers. There are many different ways to answer this question. Simple examples of different answers would be that broke and/or dysfunctional families have great, little, or no affect at all on the children in the home. It also creates even more answers than this because other possible answers are that the children could be affected in different ways if indeed they are affected.
For example, some people may think that it would make the children more violent if they were raised in a dysfunctional home, whereas others may think it would make the children more introverted. There are endless possibilities for answers that people cold come up with for this generative research question. The generative research question would also produce competing answers. It is a little obvious that with the variety of different possible answers that some of them will be competing with each other.
There are many different factors that come into play for this research topic and many people have different opinions and thoughts about what exactly happens to children when they grow up in these types of environments. This is a large reason why this generative research question would avoid producing accumulative answers. There are so many different sides, views, and perspectives that could be used on this topic that it seems impossible that answers would not end up competing with each other.
This generative research question will also generate legitimate and reasonable answers. This is because the question is phrased in a way that it is almost completely unbiased and does not provide obvious views. The question is openly stated and left open to any different types of answers. An example of a way that I could phrase the question that would not produce legitimate and reasonable answers would be: Why does being raised in a dysfunctional family affect the children so that they act more violently? This question basically puts the answers right inside of it.
This makes the question biased and does not provide a fair and reasonable playing field for the discussion about the research topic to take place. Lastly, this generative research question also generates deliberative answers. The question would not provide a way so that you can just look at statistical information to get the answer. A big reason for why this is true could be because the answers are competing. If there were no competing answers then you could just look at the statistics and say that dysfunctional families cause the children to do this or act this way.
Because of the fact that there are competing answers, this research que`stion makes it so that there is persuasion and reason needed in order to provide the best possible answer the generative research question. My purpose in this research project through my generative research question is to analyze and discover the effects that being raised in dysfunctional families have on children. I want people to understand the importance of raising children the right way. I want people to understand the ways children are raised has a huge impact on the type of people they can become.
My purpose is not to say that if a single parent or an alcoholic parent raises a child that the child will be dysfunctional later in life. Rather, my purpose is to show that no matter what situation or environment a child is being raised in, the ways children are raised and the things they are taught will most likely play a huge role in the rest of these children’s lives. The reason that I have the interest in this topic that I do is because I believe the youth of today are the people who are going to be running our world tomorrow.
Because of this, I feel that it is very important that our youth are raised in a healthy and responsible manner. If our children are raised in this way now, I believe that it could help to improve the world that we will, in the future, live in (although this is not the point or argument of this project). Because you, the audience of this paper, also live in the same world and probably a similar community, I believe you can find a similar interest in the effects that being raised in dysfunctional families have on children.
I hope to achieve my purpose by taking an in-depth look at what “dysfunctional families” are, define them, explain what they look like, and how they work. From that point, it puts the audience at a perspective to see how dysfunctional families do affect children. Then I plan on showing statistics that show and explain a variety of these effects. Lastly, I will be able to argue and explain my answers and reasons for them at the end. These types of answers that I’m looking for in this research are answers that explain why dysfunctional families have the effects that they do.
It is one thing to look up and find statistics that say X percent of people raised by an alcoholic parent will end up being abusive parents when they are older. However, the types of answers that I am looking for should be explanations for why X percent of kids with alcoholic parents become abusive. This way we can take a look at what people can do to raise their children better instead of just saying not to be an alcoholic parent. I want people to see and understand why it is important to be aware of the effects that alcoholism, along with many other things, has on children.
An example of an article that supports the types of answers that I am looking for is an article I found titled “Adult Children of Alcoholics. ” I found it searching through an article database I found on Wayne State’s library website called Gale Virtual Reference Library. The article is all about the effects of children being raised with at least one of their biological parents with a history of severe, chronic alcohol problems (“Adult Children of Alcoholics”). The article does not list an author, but it was edited by Pamela Korsmeyer and Henry R. Kranzler.
Their credentials are not listed or mentioned, but this article is from the Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcoholic and Addictive Behavior. I would imagine that they have reputable credentials because this seems to be a pretty legitimate source since it is an encyclopedia. The authors’ purpose for writing this article seems just to be display the effects of what can happen to children when they are raised with one or more alcoholic parents. The author’s specific argument was basically that there are many negative effects for children of alcoholic parents.
The authors’ relationship to their audience is a little hard to figure out since this more a research article and it seems to be strictly factual, but I would say the authors’ relationship to the audience is that they care about children of alcoholic parents just like the audience most likely does. The audience for this text is not directly stated. However, it is pretty safe to assume that they are people that care for the well-being of children who are raised by alcoholic parents.
Some other audiences that might be likely to engage in this text could be people who are looking into research about the effects of children being raised in dysfunctional families, like myself. Or another audience could be parents in general, so that they understand the importance of being good parents and taking care of their children. The audience’s relationship to the authors is that they both care for children of alcoholic parents. The kind of text this is would be secondary research;, it could also be categorized as a syndicated text, and it was also edited.
The article is almost completely factual. The only opinions really talked about in this are the authors’ talking about how reliable and legitimate the research is. This text conforms pretty well to typical research articles. The text is arranged so that it starts out with a small background and explanation of the research and it explains a few important details, then the rest of the paper goes into the research and shows the results of research that was done. This text is all facts, and is pretty straight to the point. So the tone seems to be very serious, and the tone is pretty formal.
The article is almost completely filled with research and it comes off as being very objective and impersonal. It talks about research done then it also explains whether or not that research is really reliable or not and how much it can be trusted. Overall, I would say the style of this text is very direct. The reason behind this text is to display the results of the effects of children being raised by alcoholic parents. I do not think there were any specific events or situations that made this text necessary. It was most likely just somebody’s desired research.
This text could affect the situation by bringing light and attention to this problem, and it could raise awareness. Other texts related to this situation would probably just be other researches done on the same general topic, and the venue that this article appears is in a dDrug eEncyclopedia I found from one of Wayne State’s research databases on the library’s website. The venue determines who is likely to encounter this text because it will most likely only be people looking for this because this encyclopedia is not really a media outlet and not many people can really just stumble upon this and up reading it.
You kind of have to be looking for it. This text also answers all the appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos basically asks about the credibility of the source. As it was mentioned before this article comes from an encyclopedia and lists two editors, which makes it pretty safe to say that the article is reliable. There is a possibility, like with anything else, that this source is not dependable, but it is a very small chance that this article is not reliable. Based on what is available in this text, I would say that the writer definitely appears to have a very serious and formal personality.
Pathos is the audience’s appeal to emotions. This is the appeal that the article has the hardest time answering. However, after reading the statistics given about the effects of children being raised by alcoholic parents it is hard for a genuinely caring audience not to feel anything about the topic, although the author uses no opinion to try to persuade the audience’s feelings. It is pretty safe to say that a majority of the people in the audience already has a pretty good idea for what is right and wrong when it comes to raising children.
The writer of the “Adult Children of Alcoholics” article takes that knowledge and then shows statistical results of what happens when children are raised in some ways that they should not be. Logos is the audience’s appeal to reason and logic. The writer of this article relies on the evidence found in his/her research. The writer is relying statistical evidence to support his/her claim that there are sometimes negative side effects to children who are raised by alcoholic parent.
The article gives reasons and statistical evidence for why and how the claim is true. The evidence given in this article goes hand in hand with my research question and helps to give relevant information in finding an answer to the effects that dysfunctional families have on their children. I have also found a couple different articles that are relevant to my research and should help me in my purpose to analyze and discover the effects that being raised in dysfunctional families have on children.
One of the articles, from the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, talks about how families that are dysfunctional in all sorts of different ways can lead to gang membership in juveniles (“Gangs”). This article is a secondary research source, and can be classified as a syndicated text that has been edited by someone other than the author. This article will help me in my research because it brings a different perspective to dysfunctional families other than just alcoholic parents.
The other article that I found that will helpful with my project is a peer-reviewed article from the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. This article could be classified as a syndicated text, and it involves secondary research about whether or not the relationships that exist between family structures and delinquency vary from one another according to the different circumstances they are (Kierkus and Douglas). This article will also help with my project because it helps to balance the discussion by talking about the exceptions that apply to every situation.
So this article will help to show that even though many children that are raised with alcoholic parents later become abusive, some children turn out to be very kind and loving (Kierkus and Douglas). I plan on using all of these articles to help to answer the generative research question: How does being raised in a home with a dysfunctional family affect the children? My purpose in this project has now been explained, along with why this topic is relevant to the audience. Now that these things have been clarified these article will give me a lot of help in achieving my purpose in this project. Works Cited Adult Children of Alcoholics. ” Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior. Korsmeyer, Pamela, and Henry R. Kranzler, eds. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2009. 36-38. Print. “Gangs. ” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. David L. Sills. Vol. 5. New York: Macmillan, 1968. p301-322. Kierkus, Christopher A. , and Douglas Baer. “Does the relationship between family structure and delinquency vary according to circumstances? An investigation of interaction effects. ” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 45. 4 (2003): 405+. Academic OneFile. Web. 29 Oct. 2010.
