Essay On Changing American Family

The idea of marriage becoming less and less important as the years go by has been the reason for many changes in other aspects of American family life. People are delaying marriage till they are stable by themselves, couples are cohabiting and not getting married, more children are being born to unmarried parents and finally women and mothers are working full time jobs as their choice. All these changes have had different impacts on society both positive and negative. Over the past 60 years, some key changes that have happened are marriage postponement, cohabitation, unmarried births and the rise of women working. The first change that has happened is marriage is happening at a later age. Men and women are focusing on their careers and postponing …show more content…
Before 60 years ago, women would only move out of their parents house when they got married. There was no in between step of living together before marriage, it was parents house to living with your spouse. Now, unmarried couples are living together and it 's called cohabitation. These couples can be saving for marriage or just a boyfriend and girlfriend living together. The rise in this is caused by marriage being less valued and some couples might figure they don 't need the proof of marriage to know they love each other. The article “Changing American Family” states that the rates of cohabitation have gone up 170%, 2.9 million couples cohabiting to 7.8 million today. I think think this can be both negative and positive on society. Cohabitation gives couples the chance to basically see what life would be like married without the actual document. It is good as if the couple breaks up, there isn 't the process and lots of money getting spent on filing a divorce. It can also be good as with two people living together, it means there will be more houses and places to love still in the market for other people. Instead of having a house each, it provides more houses which means prices will decline as more are