November 11-15

What is a family crisis? A family crisis is when family members encounter a huge change in their lives.this change can be either good or bad. Some family changes that cause stress and depression in a family is when someone dies, a divorce takes place or when a family member is diagnosed with a disease. Some examples of diseases that can impact a family is cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, or sickle cell anemia, many of these disease are lifelong and require the family members to care for the individual affected. The death of a family member is another major crisis that occurs within a family, leading to depression. Family members need to deal with the absence of individual who passed away making them have to grow accustomed to the new life. If a father is gone then the mother will need to go out into the workforce and provide for the children, causing the children to not see their mother as much as when the father was alive. There are many different family crisis and all of them affect every member in the family, one way or the other.