The Changes In American Family In Recent Years

Today families have changed greatly over the past 60 year then it is today, and they continue to become more diverse than ever. Family has been one of the most important things to us, because as children we depend on the parent’s to take care of everything. Family is one of our most fundamental social institution in society, the family, is considered the primary and most important agent of socialization. When we as people think of family we think of it has being consists of a man and woman and their children who lives with them or two or more people who usually reside in the same home with the parent and share same goals and values. Our parents are the ones who teach us how to function and how to survive while we are still young. In all societies, the family has always been seen as a social institution; that has the biggest impact on society. Everyone is born into some different form of family, with each of the family taking the responsibility of nurturing, teaching the norms or accepted behaviors within the family structure and within society.

In recent years there have been a big change in the American families, because people always think that the family should always have a mother and a father presents in the home which a family should share, but some women think otherwise that it is okay to be single and still have a family and raised their kids without a man present, but not only the women, but in some homes you only see men as well. There also has been a dramatic change in families, where now that couples are dating and marrying outside of their race. So now in many household we have black and white parents. And then you have the same sex couples who also as cause a change in the way families live, and the way children’s are raised. Then you have the single parents who sometimes get alone and most of the time they doesn’t.

I am a single parent who has a great support team, not only do I have a strong support team, I also co-parent with the father. He is great and we do get alone. I may be times when we disagree about something, but other than that, I it awesome. This too can be a big change in the families these day as while, when families are apart, some things don’t work out the way that they should like most powerful marriages does. In reality a successful man would always go for a woman like himself, someone who is professional as while, within that household thing seem to came better than other household with the ones that are single. Although while saying this, it is not to say that marriage is not important, some just believes if they are married it would be better for them, many families are still based around marriage there is just a greater variety of family forms recognized today. I don’t why people always have problems with the change in the why that people live but now the situations is different versus the past. I don’t see why that it should matter if people are married before having children, or if a their relationship just doesn’t work out why it would be frowned upon to move in with someone else that helps to raise the child. Like myself I am one of those who moved in with someone for the support.

In today’s world the trend between diverse families has been so positive, and then it has ever been in the past. There are also many types of diverse family’s. You have so many diverse families because this is such a diverse world. People tend to date people that have the same level of advantages, interest and as in education backgrounds as they do, so being with a different race doesn’t matter. People don’t mind being diverse, they have the same respect for others that they are dating just like if it was their own race. Diversity family have been a big change because a lot of people have been accepting and opened minded.

There are also some many different ethnicities and cultures that are being blended in this country than it have ever been so it only makes sense that families would become more diverse as the cultures blend. But only us as human should be able to make choices about our family and the way that we live, but we also have better understanding about relationship as being diverse and don’t have the means to talk about others. Some people have argue that diverse families have too much freedom and lacks what it used to be years ago, which they call, strong family structure. I feel like there shouldn’t be any change in the way people take care of their family, nor how diverse they are. You have some single peoples and some couple who are married and some who are not marriage raises their family different than other. Most of these family’s does a good job in what they do, so I feel that diverse is a good and positive thing.

In World War II, women where stay at home mother’s while the fathers went out to work and bring whatever it is that the family needed home. This was a traditional thing back in the days for World War II women. Back then women were alright with being a stay at home mother and also helping and feeding the men for the war. Now women have stood up for their rights by going out into the world to work. This has not always been considered the norm, but that is how it is today. While the men were out in the war, the women found out that there were more things that they could do. Although they played many key roles in the war, the women were accomplishing the same things that men have been doing for years.

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