Analysis Of The American Family By Stephanie Coontz

Today 's generation have changed many ways since the beginning of the century. In “The American Family”, Stephanie Coontz discusses many situations that has occurred during the beginning of the 21st century and suggested solutions to solve those issues in the future. For instance, she argued that women are being treated unfairly, family are not discussing their problems openly, and institutions need to change to fit the families’ requirement. In “Complexity of Family Life among the Low-Income and Working Poor” Patricia Hyjer Dyk, argued that women still doesn’t have enough choices, low income families doesn’t have enough jobs, and Government are not helping many families. Dyk’s review of the scholarly research on low-income families support Coontz’ evaluations of the problems faced by 21st century families and the solutions Coontz recommends, like improving women 's lifestyle, discussing problems openly, improving institutions and changing institutions so it can to fit to fulfil families need. . Coontz showed that women 's believed however they are being treated is good which is also shown in Dyk’s argument that many women are

Coontz argued that modern generations doesn’t hide anything and that’s why people resolve their problems quickly. “There are plenty of stresses in modern family life, but one reason they seem worse is that we no longer sweep them under the rug. Another is that we have higher expectations of parenting and marriage” (Coontz 98-97). Modern families does not encounter many problems because they share it with other people and they have higher expectation to build the next generation. Dyk also believe that if problems are discussed then there will be less stress and more