The Evolution and Diversity of Modern Family Structures

The Nonexistent Model Family

Most people would say that the model family is two biological parents and two kids, but if you look into how families in reality are, we are nothing like that. Generations have changed, tolerances have risen, non acceptable things have become acceptable. Grandmas and grandpas today frown upon the way our families have evolutionized. The way their generation was raised and the families they were raised in makes them have their own ideas of how families should be rather than how they are now. More and more diverse living styles are now considered families. Families have changed so much over the years that the model family is virtually nonexistent. The typical model family in the 1950s according to the article, “What

The class that because of family lineage determines membership. Women do mostly everything that is related to family: they take care of their children, are on the board, and participate/run clubs. Women also have a special role in maintaining the class and the boundaries around it. Parents also teach their children how to maintain their class position. The money they have acquired through inheritance may have taken generations to accumulate. This money is considered the families and not individually theirs. Volunteer work was very important in maintaining social class as well as who you marry. “A compatible marriage first and foremost is a marriage within one’s class” (Aulette, 66). This quote from an upper-class woman from the article, “Changing American Families,” reflects these ideas. Unlike in the 50s, education was very important for social class and children were expected to go to the most elite schools in the

These families are still frowned upon by multiple religions and individuals, but these couples fight to stay around and have started to use surrogate mothers, sperm donors, and/or adoption to have children. Which leads to peoples optimism on how the children are being raised, most just assume that the children being raised by two adults of the same gender will have behavioral problems. But research has been found to be false and that it’s other factors such as divorce from heteorsexual couples that causes behavioral problems. Most gay couples do not break up once they’ve became parents and they have an ordinary