Families in the USA

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Families in the USA

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Family Family is the most important part in our life. A child is born in a family , grows up ,tries to find his second half. That means that a family goes through several states.

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family Common family goes through this cycle. My family is not an exception.

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Biological Biologically everyone has a father and a mother .

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Psychological Psychologically most people identify with someone they define as parent, grandparent, brother or sister, uncle, or cousin.

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Social Socially most people are members of a group they perceive as “ family ”—one in which relationships operate in an atmosphere of acceptance, intimacy, support, and trust.

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There are many types of families. The smallest family is that of two persons such as a husband and wife, a parent and child, or a brother and sister. These units are kinds of nuclear families. . When the unit includes a husband and wife, it is considered a conjugal family as well. In 1980 there were 58.4 million families in the United States. Of these, 48.1 million were conjugal, 1.7 million were families headed by a man with no wife present, and 8.5 million were headed by a woman with no husband present. Types of family

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The Family System in the United States In terms of organization, the family system in the United States emphasizes Monogamy that is the most common form of marriage between two people.

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Marriage rates In 1900 the median age at first marriage was 25.9 for men and 21.9 for women. In 1994 the figures were 26.7 and 24.5 respectively. In the decade of the 1970s there was a sharp increase in those who have never married. In 1970 one out of every ten women age 25 to 29 had never married. By 1980 this proportion had doubled to one in five. For men it was one in five in 1970 and one in three in 1980.

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Family size. Most married couples have or want to have children. Voluntary childless marriages are uncommon but increasing. In 1990 there were 4.2 million births, a rate of 16.7 per 1,000 population. Like marriage rates, birthrates changes with wars, socioeconomic conditions, and other variables, as was evident in the “baby boom” following World War II. By about 1900 the birthrate was more than 30 per 1,000 population, decreasing to 19.4 in 1940, and increasing to 25 by the mid-1950s.

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Divorce. The United States has one of the highest divorce rates in the world. In 1988 it was 4.8 per 1,000 persons compared with 3.3 in the Soviet Union, 3.1 in Canada, 2.9 in the United Kingdom, 2.4 in Australia, 2.1 in Sweden, 1.3 in Israel and Japan, and 0.6 in China. Approximately one half of all divorces are among persons in their 20s, and the rate is exceptionally high among teenagers. Divorce is also most frequent in the first three years after marriage, and the incidence is higher among lower socioeconomic levels.

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Living together Living together has become a common phenomenon. In the early 1990s more than 3 million unmarried couples lived together, six times the number of 1970. Living together is not confined to the young adult population, by any means. In fact, more than one fourth of all unmarried couples living together in the early 1980s were between 25 and 34 years old, and an additional 19 percent were 45 and over. Unmarried couples have problems similar to those of married couples.

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Childless marriages, or at least a delay in having a first child, appear to be another emerging family lifestyle. Nearly 7 percent of all married or previously married women age 40 to 44 were childless in the early 1980s. These figures increase dramatically as the age of married women decreases. For example, it increases to 26.2 percent among 25- to 29-year-old married women, 40.5 among those 20 to 24, and 48.5 among those 15 to 19 years of age.

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Dual-career marriages are a third emerging pattern. One of the important social changes since World War II has been an increase of women in the labor force. In 1940, despite a sharp increase in the number of working wives during the Great Depression of the 1930s, only 15 percent of all married women living with their husbands held an outside job. By 1960 the proportion had risen to 32 percent and by 1980 to about 50 percent. Today more than half of all married women age 35 years or younger hold jobs outside the home. The proportion of married women in the labor force is highest among those who have no small children—80 percent.