Family Structures: Shifting From Traditional Families To Modern (Essay Sample)

Name Course title Professor’s name Date Family structures and cultures Introduction Today’s families are very diverse than in the past. In the past children used to have childhood programs in their families. The main aim of the article is to aim and also briefly describe how the shifting from traditional families to modern families. Several challenges, strengths and experiences have occurred due to this shifting. . (Lisa, Kirsten 46) Several issues have come by due to insights from the modern families. Rich families sometimes face joyous moments, frustrations and more. Nowadays families have different structures. Gay family, this is a type of family, whereby one sex of people come together and form a family, a man marries a man. Bilingual family or a bicultural family, this is a type of family whereby one can have two families e.g. one in U.S and the other in Mexico. Single parent family is another type of family; one person takes care of the children in the family. Modern families have affected our culture very much; it has also changed our normal trends. Let’s take a gay family for an example; this was not there in the past. it is against the culture to marry a person of your own sex. But nowadays this is approved; this corrodes the culture and normal trends. The culture has also affected this type of families because the culture goes against these types of families.(Lisa,...