SANDRA BULLOCK ALESHA MCNEIL ABOUT SANDRA BULLOCK Sandra

SANDRA BULLOCK ALESHA MCNEIL

ABOUT SANDRA BULLOCK • Sandra Bullock is a famous actor who is now divorced. • She has adopted a boy named Louis and a daughter named Laila. • Her son is now 9 and her daughter is now 7 • She decided to adopt kids because of the hurricane Katrina that happened

ADOPTIVE & SINGLE PARENT • Adopt- to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act. • Single Parent- noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner

FAMILY STRUCTURE • Sandra Bullock is single because she divorced back in 2010. • She also is in the adoptive category because she adopted one son then later adopted a daughter. Both black. • Two rewards of being a single parent and adopting is one she is rich so her kids wouldn’t have to worry about anything. Another is she’s doing a good thing for the parents of the kids because they know their kids will have a better opportunity in life. • The cons are that she is single so some days it might be hard for her without the extra help unless she hires a nanny. Another con could not just be for her but for the kids because maybe they might start to wonder why their real mom couldn’t take care of them.

FAMILY LIFE CYCLE • Sandra Bullock would be in the childbearing expanding part of the cycle because her kids are young and she just not to long ago adopted her daughter, so her family is still growing. • One reward about this is that her kids are still young, so she has lots of time to bond with the and become that mother figure. • A con is its more money to spend since she has two and maybe more if she keeps expanding.

REFERENCES • www. dictionary. com • https: //www. iol. co. za/lifestyle/family/parenting/sandra-bullock-reveals-why-shedecided-to-adopt-15312413 • https: //www. thecinemaholic. com/sandra-bullock-kids-boyfriend-age-imdb/ • www. hollywood. com/celebrities-who-have-adopted-60203910/#/ms 20792/1