HOW FAMILY STRUCTURE HAS CHANGED

HOW FAMILY STRUCTURE HAS CHANGED

by : Nurul

This discussion is how the family structure changes, I will outline how this could happen. The structures, or forms, of the family vary as much as the definition itself. There is no single "true" family form. In Western Europe the nuclear family (a single set of biological parents residing together with their children) was prevalent in the Middle Ages, but at that same time in Eastern Europe multiple generations of the same family lived together in the same household.The following is the year in which the family structure has changed.
  
The early 20th Century

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  What caused the structure of the family to change? In the early 1900s in the United States the divorce rate (i.e., the percent of legal endings compared to the number of marriages) began to rise, and the birthrate (i.e., the number of births per 100 or 1000 people) began to decline; in other words, couples stayed married for fewer years, and they had fewer children. Women often chose to get an education and take jobs outside the home. Decades later, the same changes began to happen in other industrialized countries, Today, they are happening in many of the developing nations of the world as well.

The 1930s and 1940s

• The decades of the 1930s and 1940s were difficult years in the industrialized world. During World War II (1939-1945), millions of women had to take care of their homes and their children alone. Because so many men were at war, thousands of these "war widows"--that is to say, women whose husbands were away at war--had to go to work outside the home. Most women worked long hours at hard jobs. There weren't many "perfect families."

The end of the 20th century

•  In the years between 1960 or so and the end of the twentieth century, however, there were many new changes in the structure of the family around the globe, From the 1960s to the 1970s, the divorce rate greatly increased and the birthrate fell by half. The number of single-parent families rose, and the number of couples living together without marriage went up even more.

 Many people today would like the traditional two-parent family back--that is to say, they want a man and a woman to marry for life; they also think the man should support the family and the woman should stay home with the children.the structure of the future family could begin to change faster and faster--and in more and more ways.

That's how the family structure has change. I hope this can be useful for the readers to just knowledge.

sources :  http://oregonexplorer.info/rural/RuralIssues/FamilyStructure , http://eap-rw2.blogspot.com/2007/03/short-history-of-changing-family.html