Vanishing Family Essay

Sadly, a lot of evidence and literary works indicated that typical or traditional American family, which is the center of social structure consisting of father, mother, children and family life has been vanished and withering away. In this vision, the social ties of kinship, family and marriage are weakened .But how it happens? And what does it means that twentieth century American family is vanished? What are the symptoms of vanishing and withering inside American family in American society in general?
The vanishing family means breakdown, disintegration and fragmentation of the unity of family, as result of some reasons such as the loss of one or both of parents, separation, immigration or the absence of the head of the family for a long …show more content…
Children will be in disordered world and will suffer the most adverse conditions caused by family disintegration. They suffer the denied of family stability and stable civil life, the lack of emotions of parenting and family love, hunger, want, deprivation of the necessary material and misery all of them will be waiting. Many other problems are known to be related to dysfunctional family such as substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, family violence, childhood and adolescent depression, run away, early teen sexual acting out, civil disobedience and some other family and social …show more content…
Women undertook the task of managing the war effort at home and they had to support their families. Thousands of men (husbands/fathers) were fighting overseas and great number of them was killed, so the huge brunt of the production in factories were left to women who had only used to stay at home as householders for their families. More than a million of women were working long hours in factories in jobs usually hold for men only. This brutal war created new family atmosphere in which the two main pillars of family structure were absent. Men who used to be the breadwinner and guide