CRMN 2010U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heterosexuality, Codeine, Bourgeoisie
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First 12 questions is fill in the blank. One reason that the institution of the family is universal is because every society has a need to raise children. As a unit of rural economic production, the family"s main focus was economic survival. Rather than the family being for the sake of the children, it could be said that the children--as needed workers-- were for the sake of the family. As one indication of the strength of this new focus, parents increasingly tend to break-up--even when they still have children at home to raise--if their needs for psychological stability and self-fulfillment are not met in the marriage relationship. This trend of family decline, of course, is strongly associated with such concurrent cultural trends as increasing individual autonomy, cultural diversity. It reasonably can be said that, in many respects, the family"s decline is the adult individual"s gain.
