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Article summary: Four decades of trends in attitudes toward family issues in the United States

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The article” Four decades of trends in attitudes toward family issues in the United States” is written by Arland Thornton and Linda Young-DeMarco. This article is a written check of tendencies in family mind-set and standards from the 1960s through most of the 1990s, with specific focus upon the past two decades. We analyze tendencies in mind-set and standards in relative to a broad variety of family issues: the functions of women and men, wedding ceremony, end wedding ceremony, childlessness, premarital sex, extramarital sex, ...