Hi everyone! This week I’m going to discuss what my final project is and some secondary research that I have found to help support my project. 

For my final project, I have decided to discuss what it is like growing up with a dysfunctional family. I want to dive into my experiences, what caused me to realize that my family dynamic was not normal, and what I’ve done to better myself. I’m also going to discuss some other people’s experience in growing up in a troubled home and how they’ve dealt with it. I want this project to be very personal, with the main focus being personal experience, however, I do want to add some statistics and information I found on the internet to help support my project as well as give more insight on how growing up in these environments can affect children. I’m planning on creating a wix site, where I can easily create different tabs that contain different information. I want the personal part of this project to be separate from the research side of this project, so I am planning on just creating an information tab to basically ‘dump’ the research I gathered for people to read if they please. 

One of my secondary research articles I found is from the journal of family medicine and disease prevention. This article has an amazing breakdown of a ton of useful information all about dysfunctional families. It breaks down a bunch of different types of dysfunctional families as well as common ways it affects the lives of children. From this site, I want to include some of the descriptions of the most common dysfunctional families (such as chronic conflict households, pathological households, the chaotic household, etc.). These descriptions I think will be useful to know and understand that dysfunctional households come in all shapes and sizes, and there isn’t just one thing that makes a household troubled. 

Another article I found dove into how growing up in these environments can affect a child. I think it would be really interesting to include all of the common ways growing up in dysfunctional families can affect children. I want to include statistics such as percentages that become teen parents or go to college, as well as psychological effects, like lack of communication, or becoming excessively independent. There is such a broad spectrum of how growing up in these households can affect a person, and I think it’s important to include this information on my site to make it better known and understood. It took me personally a super long time to realize all of the traits I had that were due to living in a dysfunctional family and It would’ve been nice to have known sooner so that I could work on fixing these issues. 

With that I wanted to leave a question: Is there anything that you think I should add to the information tab on my site?