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A 4 page essay that discusses the state of the American family. The writer talks about sociological trends, and the pronouncements of politicians on the family's decline and concludes that the American family today is strong precisely because it is changing and adapting to new sociological realties. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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an election year, politicians trot out the well-worn pronouncements that play on the insecurities of people who have to grapple daily with the rapid effects of social change. Technological change,
the effects of globalization, the changes in the job market and the economy all threaten personal stability. It is little wonder that the idea of the family changing also
is so threatening to the majority of people, as the family strikes us as a refuge that should be stable and familiar. Nevertheless, it is true that the family is
changing. It has to in order to adapt to new conditions and new expectations. A look at the causes for the apprehension over changes in families shows that the
family as an institution will survive precisely because it is changing. The pace of change in the US has become particularly intense in the current era, so much
so, that the idea of remaining in a "state of permanent transition hardly seems a contradiction in terms at all" (Farrell 302). It is interesting that while everyone seems to
agree that the country is --to quote the colorful saying of my grandmother -- "to hell in a handbasket," everyone agrees that it is the other people, the other parents,
who are producing immoral children. A nationwide poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times in 1996 showed that while people felt that the country has a problem with morals and
raising responsible children, the majority of those polled felt that they did not personally contribute to the problem; it was just all those other parents who were inadequate (Farrell 302).
In other words, 96 percent of those responding felt that they were doing just fine raising moral children. With everyone trying so hard, one wonders why there is a perceived
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