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An 8 page exploration of the absent parent phenomena. The author explains this phenomena from a racial and a broad cultural perspective. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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What ever happen to the traditional American family? The one where mom and dad took care of the house. Nowadays, in some
households, one parent is left to care for the children by themselves. Single parent homes seem to be more the norm than the exception in recent U.S. history.
Our perception is that this phenomena varies in accordance with culture, i.e. that some cultural groups are more likely to have families with absent parents than are others. Can
cultural differences account for the increasing trend of single parent homes? The purpose of this paper is to explore this issue and to try and provide an answer to
that very question. The traditional American sociological model of the nuclear family is one which dates far back into our history.
Indeed, the concept of family itself can be described as the "oldest fundamental of all social institutions" (Sullivan and Thompson, 1984, p. 240). The term "nuclear family" brings
to mind the American concept of the ideal family, of the mother, the father, and one or more children sharing a common home. In this concept it is the
mother who stays at home and cares for the children and the father who works outside the home in order to provide financial support for the family (Turnbull and Turnbull,
1990). This traditional concept of nuclear family is one which is currently floundering in failure, however. With an increased divorce rate, the move of women into the workplace
and out of the home, out-of-wedlock childbirth, and the advent of such arrangements as same sex "marriages" and other lifestyle choices, the concept of traditional nuclear family is relegated to
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