'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof'

The idea of family is one of the first things many people probably learn at a young age but in reality it is a difficult subject to understand at all. Over many decades people have tried to come up with a concrete definition for family and have found it is almost impossible. Aside from the “Nuclear family,” which is close knit blood relatives including a mother, father and children, times have changed and there are many different types of people make up today’s family. Including ones with a single parent, a family with a step parent, and same sex parents, which could mean adoption also. Each generation of family adds to the variety and that could be how family has shifted so much over time. Family alters so much in a person’s life so why …show more content…
After same sex marriage became legal the amount of same sex ‘families’ increased but that’s because two single men might not be considered a family in society. The play “Cat on a hot tin roof” addresses a lot of these household barriers and that was made decades ago. In that time period (50’s) it was absurd to love someone of the same sex and one could be very mistreated for admitting such a thing. Luckily that is one thing everybody is in acceptance of today. Some might wonder why the laws even apply to gender at all considering marriage started out as a legal contract with no romantic ties. Love has never been a choice yet people decide to restrict it as much as possible, and that is why the dynamic of family has had to change. It stands for an expression of freedom in this society. The purest form of defiance is being happy. What can make someone more happy than being surrounded by the ones who truly love …show more content…
In older generations young kids would go to work and help funding for the house and pay for their own schooling with no other choice. Present day parents shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for school with no question. Over time it was realized that being a kid is the most stressful time of one’s life so the support has increased tremendously over the years. Yet somehow more and more kids are choosing to become self sufficient not wanting to have to rely on anybody else. One type of “family” that is overlooked would be when a child becomes emancipated from their parents, making them their own guardian. Basically they choose to live on their own due to a number of different circumstances. Which could be scary but sometimes someone’s family aren’t the people they need or want in their