Essays on Bread Winner

Background

Love Etc is a love documentary that follows the love and sex lives of a set of couples living in New York City. The documentary is aimed at accessing experiences of the couples and individuals in the different levels of the love cycle of meeting up, dating/courting, marrying, divorce and starting over. To achieve a meaningful assessment the directors of the documentary choose individuals from diverse occupational, racial backgrounds, on different stages of the love cycle.

Relationship status

The documentary sets off at the getting married stage with Chitra and Mahendra, an Indian-American couple from Queens, Jamaica. The couple is engaged and are on ...

It was a bone chilling night when my mum received a call at around midnight which changed our lives forever. My cousin was on the other side of the line and she was crying so hard that even my mom could barely hear what she was talking about. Through the sobbing, my mom finally was able to hear that my dad had been involved in a terrible accident and she did not know how bad it was. This news caught my mom by surprise; she jumped out of the bed after hanging the phone and ran downstairs screaming. That day I had ...

Techniques in Structural Family Therapy

Mrs. Mary Turner is a 37-year-old woman with a history of depression. She is married to Tim Turner, a 40 year old jobless man who is battling alcoholism. Mr. Turner was laid off from his employment in 2008 due to his addiction to alcohol. His job as a long distance truck driver required him to be sober at all times. After several warnings, his employer dismissed him on disciplinary grounds. His wife Mrs. Turner is now the sole bread winner. She is employed as a clerk in a local supermarket chain where she takes overtime and night duty just to make ends meet.

The couple ...