In My Year of Meats the television network wants to portray the American family as a white middle to upper class family with two to three children. I decided to read an article about the change of family types. In the article “The American Family Transformed” it looks at families in the 1960s compared to families in the 1990’s. This article criticizes the ideal of the nuclear family as a norm because it is something that has changed over the decades. The article explains how the ideal of the nuclear family cannot exist as the majority in our society anymore considering over half of all marriages end in divorce. Also, women’s priorities have changed since before women used to stay home, but now many more want to go out into the workforce rather than focusing on having a large family. Another issue that takes away from the ideal of the white nuclear family as a norm is the amount of teenage parents. Adolescents having children has been on the rise over the past decades. The article goes on to address the issues and problems that can come about because of these changes in the family, and the need for support and assistance in order to help these different family types be as positive as they believe the nuclear family to be.
I am not trying to address which family type is best by reviewing this article. I am simply trying to address the importance of realizing there are different family types, aside from the white, nuclear family that I believe need to be represented, and so does Jane from My Year of Meats.
Works Cited
Hamburg, David A. "The American Family Transformed." Society 30.2 (1993): 60-69. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Apr. 2011.
Good connection here, Kelsey.
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