Family Intervention

Interventions with Families: Considerations and Implications for Family Therapists
In the last third of the twentieth century, the nuclear family formed around marital ties and a strict division of labor based on gender, has changed to a multiple types of kinship relations. The word that best defines today's family, is the diversity, since the family now has a unique and exclusive meaning, including single-parent families and families consisting of same sex couples (Walsh, 2011). This new (or as some argue , renewed ) diversity of family forms has generated numerous comments and controversies about the consequences of these changes in the production of basic civic values necessary for social order. The changes in the family in recent decades have been truly impressive. It can be said with some justification that no comparable time, except wartime, has seen rapid changes in the conformation of the household and family behavior. It is noteworthy that every day increases the adoption of laws governing unions, the rights of gays, lesbians, and transsexuals to marry adopted in various jurisdictions in the United States (Walsh, 2011).
These changes stand undoubtedly due to the fact that for decades dominated, as at any other time, a type of family: the vast majority of Americans living or aspiring to live in nuclear families, a form of family now ironically is considered the traditional American family. Also, the routine of rural family a hundred years ago was hit by migration to the big cities, the doubling of life expectancy, the control of natural fertility and the development of assisted fertility in its many variants (including now a potential human cloning), the end of religious and romantic love "as love for life," the legitim...

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...ished notions of family may be interfering with the possibility that children who lack family resources receive adequate attention.
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