The Future of the Family

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The Future of the Family A family, who lives together, eats together, prays together, and works together is a nuclear family. In the early 1960’s the term nuclear family was used to describe the start of the family that was suggested to be dominant in the culture of the time. Divorced and single parent families rarely received any positive attention. Today, social scientists estimate that less then 15% of US families fit the two parents, two offspring family. It’s important to consider that for a society to survive its population must reproduce, or the results are going to be reduction of the population. The young must learn to perform adult roles, values and attitudes. For this to happen we need a family that can teach us all this. Today fewer people are getting married. Marriage is understood as a social obligation and a path towards self-fulfillment. “Marriage today is a voluntary relationship that an individual can make and break at will,” says David Popenoe from “Break up of family” in USA Today magazine. If this continues, our population will reduce tremendously, families will scatter, and America will decline. For this particular reason nuclear families should be preserved. Further more, fertility declined in the US by almost 50% between 1960 and 1987. It was below the necessary rate for the replacement of the population according to Mr. Popenoe and still is today. Scientists dealing with vital and social statistics called demographers said that 25% of today’s young women will not be able to have kids and 50% will be either childless or have only one offspring. Some say that it is not essentially bad for the society tha... ... middle of paper ... ... this rule Ruti feels like she is loved and her parents wants her to stay together and help her with her problems. Traditional families have rules not to hurt but to keep a family in a good condition. No law, science research, or logical methods are going to help make this true. We have so much technology today that we don’t care about anything or anyone else as long as we get whatever we want. Our greed, ego, and our needs always get in our way. Just think about it, a nice family and kids that look up to you. Everyone wants it, but nobody is willing to work for it. We know this will improve the future, but you can’t expect your family to be perfect without working for it (no work no gain). Today’s society has become so lazy and careless that they don’t care about the future. I wonder what the future will be like.

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