Families in our society, have fundamental differences that vary between culture and community. Family is a bond shared between people both blood related and not. Family can constitute a bond that people form together and often represents more than just a relationship. Bonds can represent life, love, friendship and a sense of togetherness. Through nuclear families we often tend to see a supportive network of individuals between kin, parents and other blood related relatives. Are these bonds always represented in our world, through different networks, whether its neighbors, friends, movies or television? This essay will compare the nuclear family of the 1950s to diverse family lifestyles of today. It will discuss the factors of multiculturalism represented in the 1950s and today. Finally it will compare patriarchy within family forms. Comparing and contrasting Leave it to Beaver and Modern Family, this essay explores how the nuclear family has changed over the
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In Leave it to Beaver, Ward Cleaver; the father, is the dominant head of the household and carries multiple patriarchal roles. He is the sole provider for the family, making June his wife, inferior. This connects to Robert Rutherdale’s article on fatherhood and masculinity following the baby boom of the 1940s-1960s. Rutherdale argues that “while most baby boom fathers struggled to get a foothold in the vastly improved economy of the 1950s, their successes as wage earners became a central part of their self-concepts and contributed to the generational perspectives they held of being self-made men” (1999). Rutherdale discusses that post World War, many women as men came back from war, left their jobs to raise their families; inheriting the stay at home model. With this, men went back to becoming the breadwinner and were proud to provide and uphold the patriarchal role of the 1950s and
In Leave it to Beaver, Ward Cleaver; the father, is the dominant head of the household and carries multiple patriarchal roles. He is the sole provider for the family, making June his wife, inferior. This connects to Robert Rutherdale’s article on fatherhood and masculinity following the baby boom of the 1940s-1960s. Rutherdale argues that “while most baby boom fathers struggled to get a foothold in the vastly improved economy of the 1950s, their successes as wage earners became a central part of their self-concepts and contributed to the generational perspectives they held of being self-made men” (1999). Rutherdale discusses that post World War, many women as men came back from war, left their jobs to raise their families; inheriting the stay at home model. With this, men went back to becoming the breadwinner and were proud to provide and uphold the patriarchal role of the 1950s and