Family Values

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Transitions in Family Values
“Working-class couples marry for love” (Aulette 67). Is it true that working-class couples actually marry for love, or does it depend on the situation? What causes people to want to get married? Do people want to marry someone based off similar family values? If so, what differentiates family values from regular values? A family value is a value that a family holds while a regular value is held by an individual. Family values can change as a family grows and changes. My family personally has gone through several family value transitions, and so has many other families in the world. I believe that couples do marry for love, but also I know that situations change. Then at the same time families get started on accident, and the marriage occurred because of a situation. One of the main factors in my parents’ marriage was because they were pregnant with my oldest brother. They tried for almost nineteen years to make the marriage work but it was not possible. So I cannot believe that all people marry for love, but there are …show more content…

These changes may include: divorce, death, adoption, foster children and substance-abuse. Anyone of these factors could cause a family to reevaluate their family values. Family values are a funny thing. A lot of the time, family values are contradictory. The values are constantly contradicting one another. For example, families may say that they value their children’s education but do not value individualism. Education means people becoming individualized. A lot of families do not want their children to leave the kin behind, but yet they want their children to have a high education. With high education and individualism comes a sacrifice. No matter how hard families try, there will always being contradictions in their family values. Families will want one thing for their children, but will want another value that contradicts that

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