Positive Impact of the Environment on Families

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This paper discusses how environments affect the quality of family life. The author goes with the assumption that families choose where they live in order to earn a living and secure an education. The paper explains how the environment plays a critical role in shaping the type of lifestyles that will be experienced by American families and discusses the positive and negative impacts of the environment on American families today.

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"Today, families across America are living in widely different environments, with some preferring the fast-paced lifestyles that characterize urban settings while others enjoy the pastoral qualities of country living. In many cases, though, families live where they have to in order to earn a living and secure an education. Wherever they live, it is not surprising that the environment will have a profound impact on the quality of family life. While some families become stronger and more closely knit as a result of a less than desirable environment, others may respond by self-destructive behaviors and dissolve into a disparate collection of people bound only by name."

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