This week we talked a lot about family roles and what roles we played in our families. We talked about some theories that happen with communication in families.  Exchange Theory: As individuals we do what benefits us most Symbolic Interaction Theory: Drawing conclusions based on our interpretation of behavior. Behavior has meaning, and it may not be interpreted correctly. Systems Theory: Every family has rules and roles that they play and listen to in their families. Conflict Theory: The pursuit of scarce resources by rational self-interested actors will necessarily lead to conflict. All of these different theories play into the communication we have with every single human being we will run into. Most of them occur because of the way we've grown up. When we were talking about these different things it made me think of my own family and our own communication. I have realized since taking this class that my family doesn't have the healthiest ways of communicating. That and some

 So far in the semester we have talked about some studies that were done about if children were at a disadvantage being raised by a homosexual couple verses a heterosexual couple. The information that we looked over was fascinating.  There was a statement released by the APA ( American Psychological Association ) that stated "Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents".  Luckily for us they had to provide where they got that information from. By taking a good look at the studies, we found that the claimed statement wasn't true. Most of the research was not done in an accurate way to make these claims true. Some of the studies were comparing well off white lesbians' to single mothers. Which we know from other studies that single mothers are already at a disadvantage compared to heterosexual couples. Some of their studies had no comparison group. Or they only