The family ecology perspective focuses on two things: how the environment affects a family, and how a family affects the environment. First, a family's life can be altered from the economy, education, region, and culture. Neighborhoods are viewed as a place where children flourish and connect with others. However, a socio-economic status of neighborhood can alter a family's life. For instant, if a neighborhood is poor; a family’s life can have a great negative social life, poor health quality, poor education, and a poor economic status. Aspects of a neighborhood can lead to a higher rate of violence, low educational attainment in adults, higher percentage of females who are head of their households. Amongst African American families the marriage
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Family decline: an individual moving away from traditional roles, men in the workforce and women as a homemaker, seeking individualism; discerned from the baby boom generation. The baby boom generation was the last generation to receive family wages because women were seeking work to assist providing for the family as well as men. The workforce was male dominated which provided family wages for their families. Motherhood was another responsibility, but it wasn’t the only responsibility. However, the actual change in family was the average age people were first married increased. Also, a proportion of the adult population married decreased, cohabitation increased, a single parents family increased, and child poverty increase. However, during the Great Depression, marriages were delayed, and fewer children were being born because of lacking resources; which continued until industrializations flourished. In World War II divorces rates spiked which lead to a small increase in marriages and child births. Lastly, individualized marriage is an altered family which takes under individualistic values while maintaining traditional goals. A family is capable of adaption and an immense diversity. Individualized marriage is of importance of both, decline and change. A person could have time to seek their individualistic values and decided to marry later in their lives or not and be cohabitors. Also, people could have gotten divorce which lead to a single parents household and child
Family decline: an individual moving away from traditional roles, men in the workforce and women as a homemaker, seeking individualism; discerned from the baby boom generation. The baby boom generation was the last generation to receive family wages because women were seeking work to assist providing for the family as well as men. The workforce was male dominated which provided family wages for their families. Motherhood was another responsibility, but it wasn’t the only responsibility. However, the actual change in family was the average age people were first married increased. Also, a proportion of the adult population married decreased, cohabitation increased, a single parents family increased, and child poverty increase. However, during the Great Depression, marriages were delayed, and fewer children were being born because of lacking resources; which continued until industrializations flourished. In World War II divorces rates spiked which lead to a small increase in marriages and child births. Lastly, individualized marriage is an altered family which takes under individualistic values while maintaining traditional goals. A family is capable of adaption and an immense diversity. Individualized marriage is of importance of both, decline and change. A person could have time to seek their individualistic values and decided to marry later in their lives or not and be cohabitors. Also, people could have gotten divorce which lead to a single parents household and child