FAML 430 Week 11

 READ: Remen (1996) In the Service of Life

The obesity and diabetes rates in your community are at dangerous levels. How might you intervene as a citizen professional? Demonstrate the difference between helping, fixing, and serving to help alleviate these problems in your community. How would participants in each category go about solving the issue, what would their motivation be for getting involved, and what would be the outcomes of each?

You will be asked to complete the primer worksheet later this week. Be prepared to share your ideas with your team during your next Zoom meeting.

  • Helping—
  • Fixing—
  • Serving—

Democratic Community Initiatives (Anderson & Doherty): Communities are integral to the health and well￾being of families, and family professionals can have
an important role in working with families in their
community.

Hofferth
(2001) found that time spent eating meals at home
was the strongest predictor of children’s academic
achievement and psychological adjustment.

Council of Economic Advisers to the President
(2000), in an analysis of data from the national Ado￾lescent Health Survey, found that having five or more
dinners per week with a parent was a strong predictor
of a wide range of adolescent strengths. Gillman et al.
(2000) found that children who ate more family
dinners at home had better quality diets on a variety
of nutritional indices, and Ackard and Neumark￾Sztainer (2001) found that family mealtime while
growing up is associated with fewer symptoms of
eating disorders among college-age women
...
All these studies
controlled for income, family structure, and social
class factors

 parents (especially
middle-class parents) have become increasingly
aware and concerned about these trends, yet feel
powerless to make changes and stem the tide. A
Search Institute poll found that 41% of parents said
that their ‘‘child being overscheduled in so many
activities’’ made parenting difficult (Roehlkepartain,
Scales, Roehlkepartain, Gallo, & Rude, 2002, p. 9).
This ranked with financial concerns as the third
most problematic issue that made parenting diffi￾cult, just behind ‘‘job demands’’ and ‘‘conflicts or
rivalries among children’’ 



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The Family: A Proclamation to the World reminds us that we have a responsibility as citizens to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society. We can best do that by following the example of the Savior—loving our neighbors, serving one another, honoring agency, and being anxiously engaged in a good cause. He changed the world—and as his disciples, we can too.

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