The Modern Family

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Daniel Smith pg. 1 Enc 1101 12 : 30 Dr , Lee The Modern family is it so different than before Today’s modern family has had a shift in the gender roles of who is the stay home parent and who is the money maker in the family . Has this shift helped the family structure in America today or hindered it ? Let’s take a look at two articles that discuss the mindset of the generation they represented , the first article is I Want a Wife by Judy Brady ( 1971 ) published in MS magazine ,the second article Real Life Stay at Home Husbands by Hillary Stout Marie Claire magazine August 9 2010 the contrast between the two articles and the way society thought about the family I think you will find very interesting At the time when Judy Brady wrote this article America was going through an identity crisis there was the old way of thinking that said the wife was to be the one who stayed home and did the cooking, cleaning, the taking care of the family a kind of mother hen if you will insistently looking after her chicks . This type of thinking was all too readily agreed with by her male counter parts of the times . In her article Judy switches the roles and makes a really good argument that it was time for a change, by putting the shoe on the other foot so to speak she brings to light the truth that women of her generation were being taken for granted ,let’s look at some examples from the text and see if we can feel the sarcasm the rage and sadly to say the desperation of a generation of women Here is a good example of the loneliness of the women of the seventy’s “I want a wife who will

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