American Family Culture Research Paper

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The culture of the American family is constantly evolving. The traditional group of families of midcentury America was itself a tradition. All appropriate families were incorporated of grandparents, a working father, a homemaking mother who must be around her children always, and two to four kids, ideally living in a rural single-family home, and some pets. In past times, just the urban and instructed families could bear to live by this tradition. Factors such as social, cultural, and economic shaped the family, gender roles and sexuality in the United States between 1945 and the present day very vastly. Some of the postwar norms were masculinity and femininity as we discussed in class, where men were expected to earn and provide comfort to his family, on the other hand women should maintain home and support the family. In addition, the social and cultural factors shaped the family, gender …show more content…
Only a small amount of people from the whole US population lives in a tradition of “normal” family. All members of the family works, there is no place for gender roles assigned with their sexuality. There are no more home making mothers staying at home, and taking care of the children all the time, and no grandparents. Nowadays, US families consists less of children, and if they have children they usually have a divorced, and single parent taking care of their children. The economic factors which affected the US families are women getting into paid labor force. In recent times, a huge number of females in United States have been living independent adult lives. Before the recent decades, i.e. after Second World War women have been dependent housewives all their adult lives, instead they were brought up teaching them to find a husband on whom they can rely to support her family, and rest of her