Families are love not danger! I couldn’t disagree more with the views and assertions that Barbara Ehrenreich make’s in her essay, about the everyday deputes and physical damage that family members inflict on each other. Ehrenreich goes on by saying a few distraught things in the last paragraph that I also disagree with such as “[We the public] aggrandize wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers….” . After a long day of school, work, or cleaning an individual wants to spend quality time with the ones he/she loves. Not argue and obsess about something bad that had happened. Home is a safe haven to escape the worries, not to create even more. Even though some comments made by Ehrenreich are a bit outlandish like, “We maybe stuck with the family-at least until someone invents a sustainable alternative….”. I can agree on one particular issue with Ehreneich such as when she discuses about the closest people to you can do the most damage to your feelings and body. Only because to truly love with a person you must put your self out there and open up vulnerable to circumstances. This is were Ehrenreich and I take different paths.
Barbara Ehrenreich stated that in even non violent families ”feelings are routinely bruised and often twisted out of shape”. Even though to a certain extent this is a possibility it doesn’t happen routinely. Of course families are supposed to argue and have problems, but if a small verbal disagreement turns into an all out brawl night after night one or both of the spouses should really consider separating for the good of the children or take part in couseling. But in any case these are extreme circumstances in which I feel that Ehrenreich latches onto way too often in her essay. She almost gives me a feeling of self hopelessness for my future family or relationships. Also she keeps stating the ladies side,”…for a women, home is, statistically speaking, home is the most dangerous place to be”. Also Ehrenreich , gives...