The Difference Between Families Of The Past

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The Difference between Families of the Past and Modern Families Living into day’s society as a family is so much different from being a family of the past. The make-up of families now are much different, you have single family households and same sex parents and in the past families where mostly made up of husband and wives. So many people are now having children out of wedlock. You have single fathers as well as single mothers. There are so many different make ups of families now and the comparison is so different. In the past we had mostly two parent household. The father was the major financial provider in the household. You rarely had a single household family. The wives stayed home and made sure they took care of the house and the children. You rarely so a single parent household unless the father was deceased. In the past for a woman to be a single mother, if she was not a widower she was considered a harlot. Even if the was some adultery from the husband the women knew about but the families stayed together to make sure the children were raised with both parents, and the divorce rate was significantly low. Now we bring into the twentieth century. In this day and time we have some many make ups of the modern day family. First we will start with single parent households. In today’s society you have men and women as single parents, this is due to unfit parenting from the other parent, children born out of wedlock, and from divorce. Women are also now going to fertility clinics to conceive. Then you have same sex marriages. In society today you have lesbian couples and gay couple raising children together. They have come together after having children in a heterosexual relationship and coming out of the closet later in life. You also have those that decide to adopt and those lesbian couples who decide for one of them to get pregnant as well as having a
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