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Raven Easterly Marriage & the Family Three Perspectives on the Changing Family Preparation:  Read Chapter 1 of your class book, paying particular attention to Section 1.5.  Review the supplemental article: Pew Research Center - The American Family Today. 1. Drawing from your class book, fully explain the following perspective: “The family is declining.” “The family is declining” is a perspective that focuses on the high divorce rate that has a few consistencies, indicating that people are putting their own needs above family responsibilities. There have been studies that indicate that fewer adults are married, more people are divorced or single, and women are having fewer children. This perspective is typically endorsed by conservative politicians. 2. Drawing from your class book, fully explain the following perspective: “The family is more resilient than ever!” “The family is more resilient than ever” is a perspective that focuses on the societal changes that are actually making the family stronger. Compared to the past, adults can more easily leave unhappy marriages, make new relationships, and raise children in a happier home. The happiest families share domestic housework, rather than leaving it all to the women of the household. 3. Drawing from both your class book and the supplemental article (Pew Research Center - The American Family Today ), identify and discuss three ways in which “The family is changing, not declining.” “The family is changing, not declining” is a perspective that fits as an in-between of the previous two perspectives. This perspective argues that family problems have always existed, they are just changing into different issues over time. The issues of today would include having fewer children, with nearly half of these children are conceived in a committed home. “… four-in-ten births occur to women who are single or living with a non-marital partner” (pewresearch). However, families are becoming more complex. The size of families are shrinking, with women mostly now only having 2 children, when in the past, most women had four. However, today, women are becoming more educated and becoming a larger part of the labor force. Adults are waiting to have children, with the new average becoming 26 to become a mother (pewresearch) .

4. Which perspective do you best identify with? Please explain your choice. I best align with the idea that “the family is more resilient than ever.” This is mostly from personal experience, but also from seeing families on social media. While there are of course some outliers, I have seen far happier homes today compared to previous generations. Today, we are more accepting of queer families, leaving unhappy relationships, and sharing domestic chores than ever. I find that today, adults are better educated when making the decision to start families. For me personally, I know I would not want to bring a child into the world unless I was financially stable, which is becoming more difficult to achieve today. While I understand the fear of the dropping birth rate, I think that they are going at it from the wrong angle. Rather than attacking the ideals of adults not having children, we should be creating a better environment that promotes having children, and rewards those who do. Currently, in the US, mothers are not given enough maternity leave, children are poorly cared for in public schools (I am referring to school shootings and the poor actions taken to prevent them), and the cost of having a child is skyrocketing. I believe that this is not a suitable environment to bring up children.

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