American Family Decline, 1960-1990:A Review and Appraisal  

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Popenoe, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 55 no. 03 (Aug. 1993), page 527-555.

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Contrary to the view of some academics that the family in America is not declining but just changing, the thesis of this article is that family decline since 1960 !-.as been extraordinarily steep, and its social consequences serious, especially for children. on U.S. Census data. family trends of the past three decades are reviewed. The evidence for family decline is appraised in three areas: demographic, historical, and cultural. is argued that families have lot functional, power, and authority, that family is cultural value has diminished, and that people have become less willing to invest time, . and energy In family life, turning instead to investments in themselves. Recent family decline is more serious than any decline in the past because what is breaking up is the nuclear family, the fundamental unit stripped of relatives and left with two essential functions that cannot be peifonned better elsewhere: childrearing and the provision 10 its members of affection and.

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