Modern Family Trends

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Modern family trends. There is no doubt that the main features of the russian family of the 19th century had particularly nothing in common with the features of the modern one. Talking about this topic, I want, first of all, to emphasize the strong differences between the Russian family institute of the past and the Russian family institute of the present. As far as the main trend differences are concerned, there are a few which one can find: First of all, it is the trend to have religious marriage vs the trend to have a civil marriage. Two centuries ago it was the church where the couples were getting married. People couldn’t help legalizing their relations with the help of the religious organization, because it was the only place where they could do that. Nowadays, Russia has a civil ceremony requirement. Following the civil marriage ceremony, couples are free to marry in a religious ceremony. Such ceremonies, however, only serve to provide a religious recognition of the marriage, since the state's recognition has already been given. It is important to mention that nowadays the majority of Russian couples tend to register their marriage at the registry office, not even taking into the account the possibility of getting married in the church. Besides that, the majority of modern Russian men and women don’t tend to legitimize their relationships at all. There is a tendency of cohabitation rather than a tendency of civil marriage. There is no need to say that such a tendency didn’t take place in the 19th century at all. The second important difference between modern and pre-modern family consists in the trend of focusing on the needs of the child vs the trend of rushing children into adult roles. Despite the fact that nowadays parents remain very concerned about their children, perceptions of parenting have changed. Two centuries ago parenting was
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