Research Paper on:
What It Is Like to Grow Up as a Mormon

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in how families are raised. They must face the ridicule of people who are not Mormon and they must instill values and morals in their children that will someday prove  beneficial to the Mormon people. They are, to say the least, a unique people who are often looked at incredibly negatively. In the following paper we examine what it is  like to grow up Mormon, what types of values and beliefs are instilled in the individual, and what family lifestyles are like. Values and Beliefs In examining what  the values, beliefs, and environment of a Mormon upbringing is like we turn to an interview with Dr. Gardner who was, or is, the President of the University of California,  Berkeley. He was raised Mormon and presents us with a very clear picture of some of the more subtle, yet powerful, realities of growing up Mormon. He illustrates that  his mother died when he was six, but his father remarried. "Nevertheless, I had a very stable home life, a very loving home life that developed in me a sense  of security and confidence. That was the primary thing" (Gardner, 2002; gardner-con1.html). He worked on his uncles farm in Utah during the summers, where he learned "how to work. Get  up at 5:00 in the morning and stop working at 9:00 p. m" (Gardner, 2002; gardner-con1.html). He illustrates that this is where he learned what work was, and learned how  to earn money as well as the respect for what it meant. "When I turned thirteen my father said, Heres twenty-five cents a week. We will provide you your home  and your food, twenty-five cents a week, and the rest of it is your responsibility" (Gardner, 2002; gardner-con1.html). Because of this he learned how to manage money from an