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An Article of Interest – The American Family: Where We Are Today
Modern life can be stressful — in the family as well as anywhere else in our fast-paced society.В And yet, with all the challenges and concerns about relationships, marriage and raising children, people in the United States today have higher expectations of parenting and marriage.В In comparing the present with the past — the so-called “good old days” — we need to realize that many of our worries reflect how much better we want to be, not how much better we used to be.
Let’s consider pieces of evidence.
Fathers in intact families are spending more time with their children than at any point in the past 100 years.В Although the number of hours the average woman spends at home with her children has declined since the early 1900s, as more and more women enter the workforce, there has been a decrease in the number of children per family and an increase in individual attention to each child.В As a result, mothers today in the United States — including those who work part- or full-time — spend almost twice as much time with each child as mothers did in the 1920s.В People who raised children in the 1940s and 1950s typically report that their own adult children and grandchildren communicate far better with their kids and spend more time helping with homework than they did.
America’s children are also safer today than they’ve ever been.В An infant was four times more likely to die in the 1950s than today.В A parent then was three times more likely than a modern one to preside at the funeral of a child under the age of 15, and 27 percent more likely to lose an older teen to death.
If we look back over the last millennium, we can see that families have always been diverse and in flux.В In each period, families have solved one set of problems only to face a new array of challenges.В What works for a family in one economic and cultural setting doesn’t work for a family in another.В What’s helpful at one stage of a family’s life may be destructive at the next stage.В If there is one lesson to be drawn from the last millennium of family history, it’s that families always have to play “catch-up” with a changing world.
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