Pros And Cons Of Old Family Traditions

In today’s world, family traditions are constantly changing every day. They are no longer the same as back then. Genders, people’s ethics are the same as everything else. Society has made everything equal for people. Certain race no longer dominates other races, and both gender have the same privileges. In “The Way We Weren’t the Myth and Reality of the ‘Traditional’ Family” by Stephanie Koontz, she argues that there is no traditional family. She believes that people can no longer go back to old family traditions since people’s genders, race, status privileges have changed. Family traditions are no longer the same, every family has a different family tradition. Old family tradition can be harmful and is no longer there. One example, Koontz gives is that an old family tradition can be …show more content…
She states, “First, no single traditional family existed to which we could return, and none of the many varieties of families in our past has had any magic formula for protecting its members from the vicissitudes of socioeconomic change, the inequities of class, race, and gender, or the consequences of interpersonal conflict” (22). Families started to improve throughout time. They started to be more emotional towards one another. Koontz explains, “Not until the 1920s did a bare majority of children come to live in a male breadwinner-female homemaker family, and even at the height of this family form in the 1950s, only 60 percent of American children spent their entire childhoods in such a family” (23). Back then, it was known that men’s will be the breadwinner and the women will a homemaker. They moved away towards this old tradition into something new. Families started to be more involved with each other and more emotions started to develop for each other. The old traditions started to fade away, and new ones came in. In today’s world every family is different. No family has the same old