Never forgeting family

Submitted by krentz Sainte

The family has changed over the couple centuries. Different cultures have a say on what families look like. We are associated with our family because it a healthy relationship we need. Family is a very important value for many people. When times get rough we always turn to our family for support. In economic crises families have become closer because they now even live together to cut down on expensive and to keep them together. The support of some families release the stress people carry like babysitting or having a place to stay when times get tough.

extended family

Over time families have changed due to emotional problems.  The different types of family that are known to society are nuclear and extended family.  A nuclear family is married couple and their unmarried children living together. It is also that the family severs as a nucleus, or core, on which larger family groups are built. The parents live together but are not together because of issue they cannot resolve.  The other family is called the extended family it consist of uncles’ aunts’ grandparents and other relatives.  I personally like this type of household because it brings families together. Families start to build go relationships while their young so there relatives do not become strangers in the next generation.

Within a family the traditional gender roles have changed because of society. Men are now able to be the home make. The stay at home dad is not view as masculine but this opened up the think of people. They started to see that men in families can be nurturing by being a stay at home dad.  In the 1950s women were fulltime homemakers and men provided for the family while females take care of the household. Now women are more independent and can work their role have changed they can work.

In conclusion the family forms a strong structure that is very healthy and helpful. The family will always be important for the social institution it where we learn how to behave. The gender roles will continue to change because of how independent we have become. Men can hold down a household and still take on the responsibility of being a father.