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    changed; the nuclear family is no longer the American ideal because family needs have changed since the 1950's. This American convention of a mother and father and their two children, were a template of films and early television as a depiction of the American family life. Now seen as archaic and cliché by today’s standards, but the idea is common throughout many of the first world nations in the world. This ideal was a vast departure from the past agrarian and pre industrial families, and was modeled

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    The nuclear family is a term used to define a family group consisting of aheterosexual pair of adults; wife and husband, and their children. It can also be known as a ‘beanpole family’ and it can be, especially in middle-class families, child-centered; child-centered is defined as being actively involved by spending lots of time together as the child's needs and wishes are the most important thing. Only 17% of families in the UK are nuclear families, and this statistic is on the decrease as it is

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    1).Write at least four pros and cons for each type of family discussed Nuclear Family Nuclear Family is a household consisting of father, mother and children. Four pros and cons of this type of family are as follows: PROS Strength and Stability Two parent families, whether married or common law relationship, tend to be more stable. Partners or spouses are role model of a loving, caring and supportive relationship for their children. This will transform into future accomplishment by teaching children

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    Family needs have changed since the 1950s and women's work in the ideal nuclear family has been historically constructed and reproduced by culture and patriarchal heteronormative society. An ideal nuclear family is a group consisting of two parents and their children. This family includes both sexes, who maintain a sexual relationship and one or more children. Within this family, everyone had roles; the father worked whereas the mother maintained the household and cared for the offspring. The children

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    social policies reflect and support the traditional nuclear family (24 marks) A social policy refers to the plans and actions of government agencies, such as health, welfare benefits, schools etc. These can often be used by politicians to promote certain family structures, which they believe to be ‘ideal’. There are many examples of policies which the government use to try and promote the traditional nuclear family which is commonly seen as the family ideology. One example is the 1930’s Nazi government

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    Defying the Nuclear Family: Shortly after my seventh birthday, my parents began having fights much more often than they previously had in the past. Less than half a year later on January 15, 2005 their divorce became finalized and my father moved out of the house. For the first few months while he searched for a home to buy, my nine year old sister and I lived solely with our mother. Soon after, we began going back and forth between our parents’ houses, living at one house for a week and then switching

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    Families supported by single parenthood are no longer viewed as nontraditional. Becoming apart of the social norm, 27% of the families in the United States are headed by only one single parent. As more single-parent families begin to emerge in North America, the public brings concern to examine the outcomes of these households for the wellbeing of children. Overall, financial difficulties and possible negative effects for children are two main issues of single-parenthood. However, a number positive

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    The nuclear family is the basic unit of a primitive society. In such families, the adult tends to be autonomous, and issues concerning a single family are often solved within that particular family (Potegal & Novaco, 2010). However, when issues involving the entire nuclear family have to be solved, some adults are consulted, and their opinions weighed based on the favorable solution to the family without having to force compliance (Potegal & Novaco, 2010). That is because compliance is expected to

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    Splinted Nuclear Families

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    hard all their lives to support their families, endured great hardship when they were too old to work or faced loss of income for other reasons (Walton, 2010). To make it through lean times, workers often had to rely on their savings, or help from friends and relatives (Walton, 2010). Although no longer protected by the former economic safeguard of the multigenerational family, American workers had yet to find a new way to endure “severe losses in income” caused by recessions, layoffs, and failed

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    image of ‘nuclear family’ used to be described as a male husband, a female wife and their kids; however, in few decades, the term family has become diverse without any blood-related relationships. Because of this recent change of family values, it is easy to find that present television shows also reflect the new concept of family and influence the recognition of the viewers at the same time. Among many TV programs such as ‘Simpsons’, ‘F is for family’ and ‘How I met your mother’, ‘Modern Family’ is a

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