Summary Of Families Are By Coontz

In this chapter of, Families as they really are, Coontz, a professor of history, asserts the theme of how has time went on the definition of a family has alter. Not even that, but who people even consider family has alter from the early colonial times to today. She explains the differences of the how every race has a different meaning of families. According to Coontz, originally family could be consider anybody within the kin. Also, people in the earlier days did not marry because of love. People got married because of social and financial benefits. Another point that was emphasized by Coontz, was how originally there was not formalities for a marriage. A marriage was just two people that are close to each other. However, as time went on documentation
An example given in the text, was how one child’s parents gave him everything he ever wanted. Although, his family was poor they never said no to his wishes. His family always would satisfy whatever the child wanted. Gerson then goes on to argue how this has given hope to children today. Females rather be single today, then go into a relationship they are not happy with. They would like to have their own career, rather than getting married. Meanwhile, young gentlemen, have a different perspective. The data from Gerson’s research show about half of the men would like it to be a 50/50 split of both of them taking care of the children. On the other hand, some of the men believe they should be the breadwinner of the families and the women should stay at home. Gerson’s ultimately stated how if both parents are flexible then they would be happy and their children also would be
Angier claims how the American families are getting more diverse, and how it is changing the definition of a family. For instance, one example she gives is gay parents having multiple children by adoption. She went on to state how in the last decade more gay parents are adopting children. Also, Angier talk about variety of families from poor to immigrants are changing and diversifying families. Another, example given by Angier is of parents coming from India, and then settling in the USA. Within this example Angier shows how people from other countries are able to successfully raise their children with their morals and a mixture of moral from the USA. Then she goes on to say how arrange marriages are going to be the new next big things for families. Angier concludes with how variety of females are bring their own definition of families, and how the USA is accepting the change, and many people are going to follow in the same