The trditional family is no longer necessary for society's effectiveness
Definition: The traditional family consists of parents and children. It is built on patriarchy, which subjects women to their husbands' authority as well as saddling them with most of the responsibility for housework and child care. ( definition is different in different countries)
- In modern industrial societies, the members of extended families usually pursue their careers independently while living apart from one another.
- The nuclear family has become the predominant family form in the United States.
- It perpetuates and enhances various kinds of social inequality. Families play a key role in maintaining the class hierarchy, transferring wealth as well as "cultural capital" from one generation to another.
- Traditional family is increasingly irrelevant to a diverse society in which people reject singular models of correct behavior an din which both men and women must work for income. What our society needs is not a return to some golden age of the family but political and economic changes.
- New methods of reprodeuction are availiable.
- Our society is still progressing when the traditional family is declining
The U.S. birth rate is down. - More Americans elect to have children outside of marriage than any time in our history.
- Cohabitation is on the rise in all sectors. The 1970 Census estimated that 500,000households consisted of heterosexual unmarried couples. Today, more than 3.7 million households fit that description.
- Sixty percent of divorced people who remarry start out by living together. Conversely, a substantial number of divorced persons who cohabit remarry.
The trditional family in still necessaryfor the society
- More children growing up with weaker ties to fathers than ever before. And the evidence is building that the absence of fathers is significantly detrimental to children, at the very least because such families are at high risk of being poor.
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