FMST 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Family And Medical Leave Act Of 1993, Nuclear Family, Impression Management
12 Jan 2017
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The criterion for inclusion as a family unit at the time was an individuals dependence on the head of the household for basic needs. The practice of polygyny- having multiple wives, existed in certain religious factions and in some native american cultures. After the industrial revolution, work was no longer centered in the home. Men went away from the home to work, and family roles were more defined. The modern family consisted of a bread-winning husband, a housewife, and their children. The democratic family emerged at the end of the 18th century as a separate and private group in society where mates were selected through preferences and children were nurtured. By the 20th century the companionate family had become the most common family form where the husbands and wives were partners who married because they loved each other, rather than out of a sense of moral duty.
