THE CHANGING PATTERNS/TRENDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FAMILY

The changing patterns/trends associated with the family

Q1

Growing tendency in families is grandparents who have taken responsibility for lifting grandchildren and occasionally great-grandchildren. The Census Bureau's 2003 Current community review reported that 3.8 million young kids (5% of all young kids) lived in the home of one or both grandparents. In 19% of situations where children lived with grandparents, there were three or more young kids in the home. Often one or both parents of the young kids were also present in the home. (Kosack 2007)

Census 2000 identified 3.9 million families, 3.7% of all households, which contained three or four generations. The most widespread grouping (65%) of multigenerational families encompassed the householder and his or her young kids and grandchildren. Immigrant families were more expected to have more than three generations in the household. In some situations, this was heritage, while in other ones immigrant families could not pay for distinct housing accommodations. (Korpi 2006)

Q2

This pattern of family functions in society established over long centuries, still applies in most of the evolving nations of the Third World. Examinations of the sociological past records of diverse areas of Europe, Asia and South America provide us with helpful demonstrations of the durability of the nuclear family. (Hessle 2009)

Ties to both parents' relations have been and still are respected, even when fall has been traced through only one line. Bonds between parent and progeny have habitually been lawfully and strongly felt important. Many families in Third World countries are goods of discontinuity. The intensification of farming production and the development of social schemes founded on land ownership have been significant expansion, as have changes in inheritance schemes, which have evolved in the direction of passing riches to daughters as well as to sons. (Korpi 2006) ...