America s Changing Families
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The American family over the past hundred years or so has changed dramatically. When I read this reading, "The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families", written by Stephanie Coontz, I was totally opened to a lot of things I already new and also some things that I didn't know. This paper will show my position on the American Family and it's changes over the last 100 years, the difference between the way things used to be and the way today's families are.
Over the past 100 years there has been huge discussion on many topics regarding family life. Marriages were predicted to be dead by the late 1970's, (John Watson) and by 1990 not one American family would be left, (Amitai Etzioni). I think these predictions are crazy and frankly way far off. Not only do I think that family life is the American way, but marriage is a covenant between you and your spouse and of course God. When I got married, I knew that there would be no discussion for divorce and even when things were rocky I knew sticking together as a family would be the most important thing to me. I believe that a family is a team that overcomes the up's and down's that come their way and stay strong and stable through out. I also have a strong faith in God, and it is his will for a married couple to stay together...