The Change In Death Rates In The Twentieth Century

Skolnick discusses the change in death rates and that how it decreased. This revolution began is the twentieth century. Today, we take life for granted as we believe everyone will live to old age. Back in the day death as cary as it sounds was a regular thing to happened. Mortality rates dropped as it was higher previously which was caused by neglect and lack of knowledge. Serving infancy was a big accomplishment. I believe that If it was not for this revolution, we would not have the history we have today and know that we should not take life for granted. Because it decreased people were able to live past 60 years old, children were able to build relationships with their parents. As a result couples, marriages lasted longer and there were less divorces. There was an increase in grandparents and many lived longer than the expected life span, so grandchildren were able to know them. A family had four or five generations living at the same time For example, instead of our parents telling us stories of our grandparents and other relatives we now had a chance to hear it face to face and learn from their mistakes that they had made. This is important because stories being told to normally get twisted around and sometime we will never know the truth because we cannot hear it from that exact person that it happened to. …show more content…
However this is not a cultural or economic problem. Families decline because they lost their community links resulting in lack of communication and change through family and work. This also cause a rise in individualism. This results in lesser family reunions and spending time with our close relatives. For example the bowling alone thesis from lecture 2 states that this was one of the results of the decline of the family. Social activities are done alone such as a decline in attendance in school’s PTA