It won’t be quite an exaggeration to tell, gone are the days of the families where husbands were only to work and feed the family, and wives were limited to handling household chores and to raising the children. In the past, there were mainly two types of traditional families existing; the nuclear family, where the husband, the wives, and the unmarried children live together, and the extended family, which consists of other biologically related members added to the ones from nuclear family .However, cultural attitudes are adapting, and orthodox systems are declining, for people do have now multiple of choices when it comes to raising a family. Apart from the ever declining traditional family structure, the most prevalent family systems in today’s
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Sometimes, people have to go through a great deal of psychological trauma in their first marriage, for they may have been the victims of domestic violence, deceitful relationships or of not receiving enough love and support from the partner such that they never marry again, or they do not marry for a while. Even if they have kids to raise, they prefer to do it themselves. Indeed, most of the single parent families have parents who are economically strong enough to raise the children by themselves, so they do not feel the need of a partner in helping for that matter. Although most of the single parents are divorced, there are single parent mothers who have never married; in fact, in 2011, 41% of the child births in the U.S. were accounted to unmarried mothers. Likewise, premarital sex and premarital pregnancy are not considered as a taboo in modern western societies, so it can also regarded as a reason for the high percentage of premarital child births in these societies. In such cases, most of the times the other partners are either unavailable or unwilling to father the children so that mothers have to take all the responsibilities themselves. Although there are other cases when the fathers are available and willing to take the responsibilities up raising the children, the parents live together without …show more content…
Today sixty percent of all marriages are preceded by a period of cohabitation. The traditional family system is often criticized for being patriarchal, and so in the wake up the rising feminist values, many young women do not want to marry at all but live together with their partners. Also, in many countries where same sex marriages are illegal, the couples have no other alternatives to living together. Moreover, the increase in the reports of the domestic violence, after marital rape and sexual abuse is making young people skeptical about the traditional family system at all. The failure such family system as shown by the rise in blended and single parent families has also incited a concept of not marrying at all or waiting until a suitable partner is found among the people. In most of these cases, the partners end of marrying while in some cases they do not. However, there are several researches that tend to show that cohabiting couples face more difficulties than the married couples; for instance, in a research done in University of Chicago, it was found that "16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their partners became physical during the past year, while only 5 percent of married women had similar
Sometimes, people have to go through a great deal of psychological trauma in their first marriage, for they may have been the victims of domestic violence, deceitful relationships or of not receiving enough love and support from the partner such that they never marry again, or they do not marry for a while. Even if they have kids to raise, they prefer to do it themselves. Indeed, most of the single parent families have parents who are economically strong enough to raise the children by themselves, so they do not feel the need of a partner in helping for that matter. Although most of the single parents are divorced, there are single parent mothers who have never married; in fact, in 2011, 41% of the child births in the U.S. were accounted to unmarried mothers. Likewise, premarital sex and premarital pregnancy are not considered as a taboo in modern western societies, so it can also regarded as a reason for the high percentage of premarital child births in these societies. In such cases, most of the times the other partners are either unavailable or unwilling to father the children so that mothers have to take all the responsibilities themselves. Although there are other cases when the fathers are available and willing to take the responsibilities up raising the children, the parents live together without …show more content…
Today sixty percent of all marriages are preceded by a period of cohabitation. The traditional family system is often criticized for being patriarchal, and so in the wake up the rising feminist values, many young women do not want to marry at all but live together with their partners. Also, in many countries where same sex marriages are illegal, the couples have no other alternatives to living together. Moreover, the increase in the reports of the domestic violence, after marital rape and sexual abuse is making young people skeptical about the traditional family system at all. The failure such family system as shown by the rise in blended and single parent families has also incited a concept of not marrying at all or waiting until a suitable partner is found among the people. In most of these cases, the partners end of marrying while in some cases they do not. However, there are several researches that tend to show that cohabiting couples face more difficulties than the married couples; for instance, in a research done in University of Chicago, it was found that "16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their partners became physical during the past year, while only 5 percent of married women had similar