Research Paper on:
Contemporary American Family

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warned that the projected trends would lead to a total collapse of societal structures. However, there are also calmer heads that seem to be prevailing as well. These experts state  that things are just not as bad as the doom and gloom crowd would like to make it. They list many reasons for the negativity toward the modern family, including  traditional moralist approaches and a biased cultural stereotype. Given this situation, then, the student might state as his or her thesis, that over the last twenty-five years there has been  a shift from the traditional role of the nuclear family to include families comprised of a single parent, or two same sexed parents. So, after twenty-five years of study, what  are the findings? CHAPTER ONE Intro to the Family This shifting of definitions has left everyone scrambling to determine which definition is the correct one. The Council on Contemporary Families(2001)  would tend to agree with the statement that a family is a care-giving unit that provides for the total well-being of the child on a primary basis. This unit could  consist of one or more adults behaving in a responsible and beneficial manner for the welfare and well being of the child. However, there are those that oppose that definition,  and challenge the idea that gay, unwed parents, or interracial families are beneficial for a child and their welfare. Several books that entered the marketplace this year sounded an urgent  call of alarm, states Maria Russo for Salon.com(2001). Russo goes on to mention Linda Waite and Maggie Gallaghers book, The Case for Marriage and Judith Wallersteins The Unexpected Legacy of  Divorce, which seemed to fuel the fires of moral outrage and confirmed the doom and gloom gangs suspicions(Russo, 2001). There were several books that countered those, however, stating that marriage