Change is constantly happening all around us from technological advances to social changes like what a society deems as normal. In the last 60 years our country has been through a lot in a relatively a short period of time from ensuring all races have the same civil rights as everyone else to putting a man on the moon. I believe this country can do just about anything given enough time including changing a once concrete idea like what a family is. In the 1950s the ideal family was an extremely important concept which if it didn 't meet all the criteria you where in the minority and it wasn 't really a family to most. But it didn 't just change it evolved, the concept of a family didn 't just differ from what it once was without a reason it
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But was even better was how the Jeffersons wasn 't just about a black family it portrayed them as a wealthy family living in manhattan. After women finished going to school this led them to go job hunting and join the work force which pretty much shattered the notion of the “ideal” family. Because instead of mom staying home to raise this kids they began to be an increase of the use of daycares for children. Also now with their own money woman could purchase what ever they could afford. As Dannielle Hudler Chevrolets first female director of car advertising put it “It wasn 't until the 1980s, when women headed to the workplace in large numbers, that marketing and advertising to women began in earnest, Hudler said. "Women finally became the customers instead of accessories," Women at the time didn 't just work to buy things they worked to be able to support them selves and their children so they didn 't have to rely on a man to survive because in the 1969 California passed the no fault divorce law which allowed women to get out of a bad marriage. With divorce and second marriages on a rise concepts like blended families became more and more normal. In the 1990’s the concept of family became even more complicated in the sense that domestic partner ships and civil unions became increasingly popular. which leads to families that consist of two fathers or two mothers because of this new acceptance of others lifestyles. Now in the 2000’s family means many things to americans but it no longer has to follow strict guidelines like it did 60 years ago post modern families also emerge which are one parent house holds or modern families are now the usual with dual
But was even better was how the Jeffersons wasn 't just about a black family it portrayed them as a wealthy family living in manhattan. After women finished going to school this led them to go job hunting and join the work force which pretty much shattered the notion of the “ideal” family. Because instead of mom staying home to raise this kids they began to be an increase of the use of daycares for children. Also now with their own money woman could purchase what ever they could afford. As Dannielle Hudler Chevrolets first female director of car advertising put it “It wasn 't until the 1980s, when women headed to the workplace in large numbers, that marketing and advertising to women began in earnest, Hudler said. "Women finally became the customers instead of accessories," Women at the time didn 't just work to buy things they worked to be able to support them selves and their children so they didn 't have to rely on a man to survive because in the 1969 California passed the no fault divorce law which allowed women to get out of a bad marriage. With divorce and second marriages on a rise concepts like blended families became more and more normal. In the 1990’s the concept of family became even more complicated in the sense that domestic partner ships and civil unions became increasingly popular. which leads to families that consist of two fathers or two mothers because of this new acceptance of others lifestyles. Now in the 2000’s family means many things to americans but it no longer has to follow strict guidelines like it did 60 years ago post modern families also emerge which are one parent house holds or modern families are now the usual with dual