Changes in Family and Marriage Structure :: Sociology

Marriages and FamiliesChanges Imagine that, if in the 1920s someone would have predicted that by the year 2000 one out of two marriages pass on end in divorce. The number of single parents will triple and lots of them will never marry. Stay at home moms will become nearly obsolete and, gay people will want to get married and adopt children. Oh my, could you imagine the look on their faces? Families are defiantly different immediately than they were then, but the world is also different. Does this mingy than families are deteriorating or are they stronger than ever? Maybe they are just changing and are still as strong as they once were. So many changes have taken place within the family. Some of them are higher divorce rates, to a greater extent working(a)s mothers, more homosexual families, and a huge increase in children born out of wedlock. Many argue that most of the familys problems come from the mother working outside of the house. The fact is that working mothers is no thing new. Mothers have always done something to help out, even if it was sewing, baking, or working on the land. In todays world its very hard to make ends meet with only one income. Children benefit in some ways from their mom working. In this mercantile culture children want to have all the nice things and whats hot.Working mothers spend on average just as much quality succession with their children as non working mothers. Divorce, single parents, and unmarried parents have always existed. It is no doubt that the rates of them have increased dramatically. Is this a bad sign? This doesnt mean that families are weak. It only means that peoples morals have changed. Families are not perfect, but they are strong. We also have more freedoms than we did in the 1920s. Women can now leave their husbands when things are unbearable. Women didnt have as many choices then. Just because families seemed good then dont mean that they were. Its not something we should try to live up to. After all we are talking about a time when slaves were legal and treated badly. On the opposite side men dont get to really be full time fathers after divorce. Divorce defiantly affects children. It is also bring out for children if they dont have to live in a household of anger and unhappiness. Of