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understanding the family by john muncie

sociology by anthony giddens

The Changing of Family Structure

Introduction

A family is a combination of individuals, who lives together and they have a relationship on birth, marriage, or adoption. In the conventional family arrangements, members such as the aunts and uncles who regularly care for their niece and nephews do not fit, as family members of an arrangement(Muncie, 1995). Nonetheless, in many cultures in the today’s world, non-parental adults are also taken as part of a family arrangement if they play the significant role of raising or looking after the children of other people. Many scholars have touched on this subject of family structure, as they intend to present information on how individuals in an area are grouped into the various family arrangement.

With the above facts, the family formation pattern or structures are also changing. Irrefutably, in the current world, both men and women are mostly focusing on how to establish themselves in the labor market before forming a family. Due to this, the age of a mother at her first childbirth has changed, as it has risen, which is giving many parents to have fewer children than it was for the previous generation. According to the U.S Census Bureau, there is no single form of a family structure, as due to the childbirth control and labor market factors many people in the modern world has smaller families, whereby the number of children within a family is below two, while some women remain childless (Coltrane, and Randall, 2011). Therefore, this paper focuses on examining the family changes that has occurred for the last thirty years. For this study, to understand the changing of the family, the primary area of concentration is the family structure and the role of the traditional family in the current changes.