Nuclear family

in the article “Variant Family Forms and Life Styles: Rejection of the Traditional Nuclear Family”, Betty E. Cogswell looks at the nuclear family structure as well as family forms that lay outside of this traditional structure. Cogswell uses the following definition of the nuclear family, “‘households of husband, wife, and children living apart from both sets of parents with male as the breadwinner and female as homemaker (391).’” This description establishes nuclear family as a patriarchal…

high rate of lone parent families among Black Caribbean and Black African families in Britain might be that because of high rates of unemployment or other reasons, males from these ethnic groups find it difficult to carry out the traditional breadwinner role. A second reason that has been suggested is that they follow a different family type, which has been imported to Britain, where the mother relies more on female relatives than on her male partner to support her family. 4 One reason…

The family has many different meanings. People view family in numerous ways. Families differ in terms of economic, cultural, social, and a diversity of facets. The one factor that every family has in common is the people within it, these members make it clear that each person is important in some way, calling them family. It does not matter if it is a blood relative, friends, or any combination of the family structure; family will offer the support that is needed to thrive. In a traditional…

My family resides mainly based on the terminology of anthropology, an Eskimo family or kinship. As stated that an Eskimo kinship is more common in the Western societies such as Europe and North America. Ironically, all of my family members are part of their own nuclear family, or when a married couple that has kids of their own, are known to the rest of society or their community as a basic social unit. An Eskimo kinship system is based on the distance from one relative to another such as; your…

If they are “deviant, matriarchal, and broken,” it’s not because of the family themselves but because of the treatment of the larger members of the society made them become so. For example, many of the blacks in poverty in The Flats are evicted by their landlord from their houses due to extraneous reasons. Stack recounted that…

Are traditional nuclear American families really the most encouraging families compared to any other families or ethnicities? As stated in the article, “The Color of Family Ties” by Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, “Commentators often emphasize the disorganization and dysfunction of Black and Latino/a family life. They suggest that if we ‘fix’ family values in minority communities and get them to form married- couple households, all their problems would be solved” (51). In other words,…

In this essay, I will talk about how Marxists believe that the family benefits capitalism and how. Capitalism is an economic system, where most of the trade, industries and means of production are privately owned and operated for profit. According to Zaretsky, the family benefits Capitalism in two ways; Being a unit of cosumption and raising the next generation of workers. Because the family is a unit of cosumption, buying most of our needs such as food and electrial appliances, money is put…

As Stephanie Coontz chronicles in her article, “The American Family,” women of lower income families were put into a tight situation, where they needed to work to support their family, but often could not find a job. Even in middle class families, women far from the happiness that was portrayed by mainstream television. (Coontz 3). There was little that women, or anyone who did not fit the cookie cutter…

The traditional nuclear family has long been seen as the perfect model and highly desired. But not all families are perfect, and different circumstances lead to alternative family structures. Neither traditional nor nontraditional families are better than the other, as both have their own problems. Moodysson’s Together focuses on the progression of interactions between individuals and families, and how individual problems contribute to greater intra-group and inter-group conflict. Although there…

Introduction Modern home spaces have been standardized to accommodate specific living arrangements while ignoring emerging alternative home arrangements. Architects, engineers and designers have built homes with the traditional nuclear family as a model for home life. As a result, technological advancements continue to enforce negative gender roles in the home. Apartment buildings and houses are built using a universal method, which creates to static homes that cannot be modified by the users.…