Tom: So, tell me about your family. Have you got any brothers or sisters
Barbara: Yeah. I’ve got three sisters (56)
Tom: Three sisters. (57)
Barbara: Well, the oldest is twenty-three. The second oldest is twenty-one, and the youngest is nineteen.
Tom: And what do they do
Barbara: The oldest one has two children, and they keep her pretty busy. The second oldest, is in college like me. She (58) computer science. And the other one is still in high school.
Tom: And what about your dad (59)
Barbara: Oh, he’s a lawyer.
Tom: Oh, really And your mom (60) , too
Barbara: Yeah, she’s a journalist. She works for a travel magazine,
Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships. Occasionally the movement of a family away from a situation which has been the source of friction results in greater family organization, but on the whole mobility is disorganizing. Individuals and families are involved in three types of mobility: movement in space, movement up or down in social status, and the movement of ideas. These are termed respectively spatial, vertical and ideational mobility.
A great increase in spatial mobility bas gone along with improvements in rail and water transportation, the invention and use of the automobile, and the availability of airplane passenger service. Spatial mobility results in a decline in the importance of the traditional home with its emphasis on fatally continuity and stability. It also means that when individual family members or the family as a whole move away from a community, the person or the family is removed from the pressures of
A. potential disorganization is present in the American family
B. social development results iii a decline in the importance of traditional families
C. the movement of a family is one of the factors in raising its social status
D. family disorganization is more or less the result of mobility
The traditional American family used to have a working father, a housewife -mother, and two or three children. But in the last twenty or thirty years, this picture has changed. Now we have many different kinds of families, many combinations of people living together besides this traditional one. For example, you have lots of what are called single-parent families, where you find children living with just one of their parents, usually after a divorce. And then there are plenty of married couples who for one reason or another don’ t have any kids, so it’s just the husband and wife. And sometimes adult children who have been living alone for years, in some cases they come back and live with their parents again. You can also find groups of older people sharing a house in order to save money. So these are examples of new types of families and having situations in this country.
Why has the traditional family changed so much Well, the reasons are both social and eco
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