Deterioration of the Nuclear Family What is a family? The meaning of family has changed throughout history. It means something different to many people. According to the U.S. Census Bureau: “A family includes a householder and one or more people living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth‚ marriage‚ or adoption. All people in a household who are related to the householder are regarded as members of his or her family. A family household may contain people not related
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The ideal family from the American perspective has traditionally been known as the nuclear family by sociologists. The nuclear family‚ consisting of a married couple and their unmarried children‚ materialized as a romantic ideal as the Industrial Revolution transformed the United States into a country where families didn’t have to depend on many children and extended families for help on a farm or financial stability and families got smaller. Wealthier families could afford to have a home for themselves
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Healthy ageing is about ‘optimising opportunities for good health‚ so that older people can take an active part in society and enjoy an independent and high quality of life’(Healthy Ageing: A Challenge for Europe). Ageing is not necessarily a burden‚ and it does not necessarily decrease a person’s ability to contribute to society: older people can make valuable and important contributions to society‚ and enjoy a high quality of life. But this depends on treating ageing as an opportunity rather
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Families are the backbone of today’s society. They provide the support and normalcy that humans need to thrive in the 21st century. Although there are many different types of families‚ nuclear and blended seem to be the most common. Nuclear families consist of two parents and their children whereas blended families include a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships. These two types of families can be compared or contrasted based on structure‚ bonds and support‚ and who has
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sociologists in Britain would not agree that nuclear families are the norm. This is because families aren’t like what they used to be. In the nuclear families today‚ the roles of the mother and father are no longer segregated conjugal roles. In the nuclear family today roles are changing and developing into integrated conjugal roles. Partners are becoming more egalitarian which is leading to the nuclear symmetrical family. Due to the symmetrical family developing socialists believe the idea of the
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of the Nuclear family? The nuclear family is well known conception within the Western world. It consists of 2 adults and 2.4 children. There are many supporters of this traditional family construction‚ and there are many with contrasting arguments who disagree. An alternative to the nuclear family in the west is the extended family. It consists of the traditional nuclear family and added relations such as an aunt‚ or cousin. The been-pole family is a sub-category of the extended family and it
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To what extent can we agree with Murdock that the nuclear family is a universal institution? The nuclear family is found world wide. The idea of a nuclear family is primarily a functionalist perspective. It is fundamentally defined as a family unit consisting of a married couple and their offspring. The initiative was first developed by George Peter Murdock (Functionalist) and since then it has been a debatable issue between all sociologists. Murdock studied 250 institutions ranging from hunting
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1/14/2011 Nuclear family - Wikipedia‚ the free enc… Nuclear family From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia A nuclear family is a family group consisting of a father and mother and their children‚ who share living quarters. This can be contrasted with an extended family. Nuclear families can have any number of children. Historical records indicate that it was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that the nuclear family became prevalent in Western Europe. With the emergence of Proto-industrialisation
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SEPTEMBER 14‚ 2012 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NUCLEAR AND EXTENDED FAMILY NUCLEAR EXTENDED A. Consist of father‚ mother and children. Consist of father‚ mother‚ children‚ grandparents and other family relatives. B. Nuclear family is principally based upon the emotion of parental love and sibling bonding and hence the structural functionalism (mechanism of relationships) is quite simple‚ yet the psychology involved becomes quite complex. In case of a joint family‚ the primary emotion is a general affectionate
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Nuclear family Drawback: The nuclear family misses all the advantages of joint living. It is too isolated and unconnected to elicit support or assistance during need or crisis. Its limited size poses practical problems for child rearing and care‚ more so when the mother works outside. Children are deprived of a wider social world‚ emotional bonding‚ love and affection that a joint family provides. The old parents are left in the village or old age homes without personal care. Joint Family merits:
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