Historically, most families have been single families due to the death of a parent. On average a parent would die ten years before a child was of age to leave the home. In the 1970’s divorce became the more likely reason for single families, in comparison to death. Moreover, stepfamilies were not about love, but about property and power. She mentions that Cinderella is a story that could have potentially been true, because often children of first marriages were a threat to the stepfamily obtaining the wealth of the family after a parent’s death. Today the problem with stepfamilies is that the parents try to push the child to love the stepparent too soon.
The myth has been the separate spheres ideology, but that was not a reality for most people. …show more content…
Previously, divorce could happen through incest rules. For example, if a person married their cousin they could say, “I did not know this was my cousin and now I want a divorce,” even if that is not the reason they are divorcing the person. This was a practice mostly among upper middle class families who married within family lines in order to keep their wealth within the family. Other countries had other practices for divorce such as leaving belongings outside. Today divorce is more common and there can be any reason for divorce. Falling out of love can be a reason for divorce and is something people may experience, because we now base marriage on love. Divorce is common, but still can be stigmatized for women and historically for men
Bell 2 seeking higher positions within their jobs. Divorce is not a new practice, as we believe, but just more accessible to other social classes.
The idea of love as the foundation of marriage was not a historical ideology, as we believe today. Marriage was a form of social connection, wealth and power. The idea of love was an ideology that was more accepted by men initially. Only five percent of men said they …show more content…
This pushes against the idea that men are emotionless, unromantic, and love is not important to them.
As a society we also hold the separate spheres ideology as the gold standard of living and believe this is what life and marriage was like before today. However, this was not true for most people. Separate spheres was somewhat limited to upper middle class white families who could afford not to have the mother work or the children work. Most families had either the whole family working or at least the children, because they had to. The idea was pushed to create
The myth has been the separate spheres ideology, but that was not a reality for most people. …show more content…
Previously, divorce could happen through incest rules. For example, if a person married their cousin they could say, “I did not know this was my cousin and now I want a divorce,” even if that is not the reason they are divorcing the person. This was a practice mostly among upper middle class families who married within family lines in order to keep their wealth within the family. Other countries had other practices for divorce such as leaving belongings outside. Today divorce is more common and there can be any reason for divorce. Falling out of love can be a reason for divorce and is something people may experience, because we now base marriage on love. Divorce is common, but still can be stigmatized for women and historically for men
Bell 2 seeking higher positions within their jobs. Divorce is not a new practice, as we believe, but just more accessible to other social classes.
The idea of love as the foundation of marriage was not a historical ideology, as we believe today. Marriage was a form of social connection, wealth and power. The idea of love was an ideology that was more accepted by men initially. Only five percent of men said they …show more content…
This pushes against the idea that men are emotionless, unromantic, and love is not important to them.
As a society we also hold the separate spheres ideology as the gold standard of living and believe this is what life and marriage was like before today. However, this was not true for most people. Separate spheres was somewhat limited to upper middle class white families who could afford not to have the mother work or the children work. Most families had either the whole family working or at least the children, because they had to. The idea was pushed to create