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A 3 page paper. That begins with a report of how families are different today. Statistical date are reported. The second part of the paper discusses the premise that humans are more alike than different and uses self-concept structure as the support. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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family was comprised of two parents and two or three children. Most mothers stayed home and kept house and took care of the children. There was also an extended family
who lived in the same community or at least in the next town. They provided a wonderful support system for the entire family (Heninger, 2009). This is rarely true today.
It is very different today, in fact, families have changed even since 2000 when 73 percent of American families were headed by a married couple raising their children together. That
dropped to 71 percent in 2006. In 1970, 12 percent of the children in this country lived with one parent. That number more than doubled to 28 percent in 1996
(Sloan Work and Family Research Network, 2008). Children living in single-parent homes are usually living with their mother and the father is often absent. Families headed by single mothers
are often living at or below the poverty line. The estimate is that 40 percent single parent families headed by moms are poor compared to 8 percent of two-parent families
(Heninger, 2009). People are not getting married as often as in the past before or even after they have children. Since 1960, the number of households headed by unmarried persons
was 500,000. By 1998, that number soared to 5.5 million households. That was a 72 percent increase. The number of births to unwed mothers continues to increase. It was 35.7
percent in 2004 compared to 34.6 percent in 2003 and 33 percent in 2002 (Sloan Work and Family Research Network, 2008). Today, there are many more blended families giving the
children step-parents. About one-third of all Americans are part of a stepfamily (Sloan Work and Family Research Network, 2008). Blended families are created when widowed or divorce parents who
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