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The Evolving Family Dynamics in the United States

Explore the shift from traditional family structures to modern relationships, roles & challenges in American families, including marriage, parenting, and societal expectations.

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The Evolving Family Dynamics in the United States

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  1. Chapter 11 – The Family

  2. Content of chapter

  3. Case Study: The Myth of the Traditional Family The “traditional” family structure of working father, stay-at-home mother, and children who attend school has rarely been the prevalent family structure in the United States. In preindustrial times, the family was the center of economic activity and the authority patterns were patriarchal. Mothers made food and clothes and often produced goods or services to be sold or traded. Industrialization saw many children become workers, as well as both parents. Currently, many women work outside the home. Some sociologists suggest that telecommuting may make the home a major center of economic activity again.

  4. Section 1 – Family Systems and Functions

  5. Family Systems • Family: Group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who often live together and share economic resources • Thefamilyis the most universal social institution, but what constitutes a“family”varies across cultures. • Nuclear family: One or both parents and their children • Most recognizable in the United States • Family of orientation: The nuclear familyinto which the person is born or adopted • When a person marries, anewnuclear family is formed, called a family of procreation

  6. Family Systems

  7. Marriage and Kinship Patterns Family organization depends on the answers to four questions: How many marriage partners; Who lives with whom; How is family membership determined; Who makes the decisions in the family? • Marriage Partners • In most industrialized nations, an individual is allowed to be married to only one person at a time. • Monogamy: The marriage of one man to one woman • Polygamy: Multiple marriage partners • Polygyny: One man and multiple women (most common form of polygamy) • Polyandry: One woman and multiple men (less common)

  8. Marriage and Kinship Patterns

  9. Functions of the Family

  10. Functions of the Family

  11. Section 2 – Families in the United States

  12. Courtship and Marriage • The “typical” American family that consists of a working father, a stay-at-home mother, and children in school is only one of many kinds of families in the United States. • Some families are a married couple without children, a family with only one parent, or children living with grandparents instead of parents.

  13. Courtship and Marriage • Most families begin with a marriage. • Romantic love is the most common basis for marriage in the United States. • Most Americans marry someone similar to themselves in terms of age, socioeconomic status, religion, and race (homogamy). • Heterogamy is marriage between individuals who have different social characteristics. • Women tend to be attracted to and choose men who are equal or above them in terms of social status, financial stability, and attractiveness. • Men tend to not be as predictable in their choices of partner, though it trends equal in some areas but lower in others (age is one example).

  14. Distribution of Responsibilities

  15. Family Violence

  16. Divorce

  17. Divorce • Four Reasons for Rising Divorce Rate • Laws governing divorce make the process easier than in the past. • Increase in working wives make leaving a husband more economically feasible. • Society attaches less stigma to divorce. • Many people expect more from marriage and are less ready to accept marital problems.

  18. Disruptions Later in Life

  19. Section 3 – Current Trends in Marriage and Family

  20. Delayed Marriage

  21. Delayed Marriage

  22. Delayed Childbearing and Childlessness • In the past, having children was a primary purpose of marriage. Now, many couples have other priorities. • Delayed Childbearing • Time between marriage and first child averaged 15 months in the 1960s. • Women over 30 accounted for 40 percent of births in 2004. • The sandwich generation are couples who have babies and elderly parents to care for at the same time. • The longer women wait to have children, there is an increased risk that children will be born with defects, developmental issues, and other problems. • The treatments and drugs used to help women have children at older ages show a correlation with higher instances of defects than those born at younger ages and without treatments. • Fertility tends to drop off for women (often dramatically) around the age of 35. • Men tend to carry the genes that could lead to autism in their children. After the age of 40, the odds of potentially having an autistic child increases by 5 times. • Men over the age of 50 are 3x more likely to a father a schizophrenic child than men under the age of 25.

  23. Delayed Childbearing and Childlessness • Childlessness • Some couples choose to wait for children but end up waiting too long. • Voluntary childlessness is the conscious choice to remain childless. • Couples who choose to remain childless often have high levels of education and income.

  24. Dual-Earner Marriages

  25. Dual-Earner Marriages

  26. One-parent families

  27. Children in single-parent families…

  28. Single-parent households and children born outside of marriage

  29. Remarriage

  30. END OF SLIDESHOW

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