Post 3: Society In Different Shades

Are you a product of a complete or broken family? Did your parents raise you successfully? If you were raised in a broken family, how did you overcome this situation? And for those who were in complete family, how do you feel about people on your opposite situation? How does having a broken family affect society? These are some questions that I asked during my interview with different types of people who have different experiences and perspectives in life.

And after hearing different testimonies and insights from people who grew up in either a complete or broken family, these are the results. Some people from a complete family say that they pity and felt sad for those people who are in a broken family because they knew how happy it is having a complete family; while some say that even they are complete, they still feel like they lack something even though they were given proper education because their parents just don’t care. One of them, who are a part of a broken family, told me that they overcame their situation because they helped each other by getting their strength from one another. Someone also said that instead of complaining, they just used their situation as an inspiration to pursue their dreams.

Going back to my previous blogs, a bond of a family is one of the important things to make the family strong. It is one of the major things that would affect each and everyone’s life. As Art Buchwald say “Family is the basic unit of the society.” Everything starts at home. Inside the four corners of the house, you will grow, learn things, and develop your thinking. A person’s attitude would manifest on how the society is right now

But what is happening in our society these days? According to different articles and forums, we are in the generation wherein the society is polluted by lots of riots, chaos, crimes, racism, unwanted teenage pregnancies, drug users and more. How did a broken family become a reason for these things?

Well according to my interaction with some people, One said “children who grew up in a broken family is a big problem to the society because there are possibilities that they might go in the wrong path in life, because no one was there to guide them all throughout, to correct them and because of that, sometimes what they think is wrong is right.” Another said that "some became delinquents, they become rebellious. That's why numerous crimes happen; many are jailed, many died, and a lot of people are affected."


Like on what happen in Britain. Broken Families were to be blame on the riots and chaos in their country, while searching on what really happen in this incident I came across to this article, "Broken societies need strong families – Ask Britain!" David Cameron,(British prime minister) says, that the solution to the problem, is families: “So if we want to have any hope of mending our broken society, family and parenting is where we've got to start.”

Maybe if broken families were reduced, there will be a decrease in crimes. I was even shocked while researching this; that it had something to do with our society today. It made me realize about a lot of things, that this is an alarming message for everybody.

But not everyone from a broken home caused chaos in our society. People shouldn't look down on them; things really happen for a reason, great or small. And from every circumstance, we should learn that we shouldn't get revenge, but to start a change.