The American Family

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This paper examines a number of questions pertaining to the American family. The paper chiefly looks at the makeup of the family unit, as well as, some of the chief challenges confronting the family, styles of parenting and a host of other matters.

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"To begin with, from my point of view, the family is a unit of people who care about one another and are prepared to place the interests of each other before their own. More traditionally, the family definition would have also included references to "blood relations" and the nuclear family, but that older definition is no longer applicable in today's society. There are a number of different types of human societies, from hunting and gathering societies to simple agrarian societies to industrial and post-industrial societies. According to Yorburg, the hunting and gathering society is nuclear and egalitarian. Horticultural societies are all-inclusive, extended, quasi-egalitarian and has clear gender roles. Agricultural societies are extended, marriages are arranged, structure is authoritarian and communication is relatively low."

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