Synopsis Of The Book 'Buck' By MK Asante

Truth to Broken Homes

In the book “Buck” by MK Asante, many things contributed to his success but coming from not a typical family I understand the hard ships that he had to go through as a young child. Even though I experienced being in a broken home where I felt like the root of all evil had sprung into my life, I decided to do a little more homework about how family structure works in a home with two parents and what are the effects of broken families among children. In this essay the following topics will be analyzed family structure, abusive vs. healthy relationships, divorce and co-parenting. Maybe this will be able to give some insight to the reasons why some children behave in a different manor. Let us get started with our

In the article Family Theory- meaning of family, it speaks of four types of family they ranged from neighborhood families all the ways to extended families. The article states” Families may be structured by such characteristics as gender, age, and generation, as well as their connections to the outside world. These structures also are useful for distinguishing families from other kinds of social groups and organizations.” After Malo’s father left he had no family to turn to, his mother was not in the right mental state to take care of him and his brother was incarcerated, so the streets became his new found family. This is most common in minorities or anyone that is not white. Finding the comfort in the little bit of joy and excitement that comes along. But lets us see how a typical family of three would be structured. In the house hold there is a mother, father and child. Each are expected to perform certain tasks in order for a home to run smoothly, or so that is what is said to happen. Let us look at it like a ladder, from the father who seems to be the most important. He is supposed to be the role model and show the child how to take care of bills and other responsibilities and “Be the

Parents want to try and shelter children form this process but they see more than anyone else. After a while co-parenting takes effect and the process has started. Children most of the time are placed with the mother for various reasons but the courts give visitation rights to the father. This concept always had me stomped, if a father wants to be a father who would stop them. why does a court have to order someone to see their child? It makes life a lot harder for everyone in the situation. When it comes to divorce and co-parenting it is a topic I sadly know all too well. Even though Malo didn’t go through the process of divorce he had to endure the process of only living with one parent. When co-parenting goes south or is not even an option it can make a child feel like they are the cause of an unhappy home. Some children of broken homes where asked about the effects on them and some answers where They acted out at school but took on more responsibility at home, felt the financial strain of living in a single parent household, and they played the blame game. This situation follows a child through their whole life, it soon becomes them. On every piece of paper work, it feels like everyone want to know about your family. While filling out paper work for college students like myself have to call two different numbers to be able to fill in the