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I agree on the second point. While those three would constitute a large part of the changes in family life, I think that there are other factors. Technology is one of them. I think that the decline of religion, particularly the Christian denominations, and the separation of church and state are factors in the change of family structure and responsibility. Had the founding fathers not created that division between law and religion, families may have retained a lot more of that cohesive autonomy that marked the previous centuries. -Lacey | I agree on the second point. While those three would constitute a large part of the changes in family life, I think that there are other factors. Technology is one of them. I think that the decline of religion, particularly the Christian denominations, and the separation of church and state are factors in the change of family structure and responsibility. Had the founding fathers not created that division between law and religion, families may have retained a lot more of that cohesive autonomy that marked the previous centuries. -Lacey | ||
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| + | From a personal standpoint, I have to agree with Kellogg and Mintz. My sense of family has never been that "proper" barefoot and pregnant archetype. My mother had been in the military for sixteen years before I was born, she retired when I was four and went back to work less than six months later. Even today she is still the bread-winner in my family, as my dad retired from civil service in 1999. Because of this I think that Kellogg and Mintz are all too right in their idea that the nuclear family is irrevocably altered from the ideal. -Lacey | ||
