Write 6 pages with APA style on Changes in Family Life: Post Modernism. Society has lost trust in any definition of truth and people have to make their own decisions regarding what to consider as real
Write 6 pages with APA style on Changes in Family Life: Post Modernism. Society has lost trust in any definition of truth and people have to make their own decisions regarding what to consider as reality (The Post-Modern Family, n.d.)
The most general feature of families before 1900 was that it was patriarchal which means the father or the husband used to be the head of any family. In the early 19th century families were mostly “stable and permanent, sexually monogamous, residentially immobile, and happy”. In the pre-industrial era, the family was the economic unit, and the men used to do the heavy work. But when the industrial revolution began in Europe in the 19th century, factories and offices emerged where productive works were done. This led to many women working in offices alongside men. In the second half of the 19th century, there was “growth in extended households” in the UK. (Adams, 2010, pp.499-500) For both Greeks and Romans, religious laws and practices were the core of their family life. It built the authority of marriage and the male member. It also “fixed the order of relationships, and governed the right of property and the right of inheritance” (Pickering, 1984, pp.56-57).
The modern family is based on “domesticity, privacy, and intimacy”. Some other characteristics of the modern family are strong emotional bonding between different members of the family, focus on children and their well-being, labor divided based on gender with men working outdoors and women working indoors, less socializing, and surfacing of nuclear families (Notter, 2002, pp.89-90). In the postmodern world, it is apparent that family life has changed. Marriages are no longer the first priority for women as a source of economic security as they have entered the job market. This has led to a rising number of children born outside wedlock. There is also an increase in the number of divorces which results in the emergence of single parents. All these factors are leading to an individualized society.
