Nuclear Family: Traditional Families In The United States

As divorce rates go up however, there is also a rise in mixed families. This may contain a mother and her children along with either just a stepfather or a stepfather with his children. This may happen on both sides of the child or children’s parents.

I do not think that a nuclear family is still traditional here in the United States. I know at least for myself, I grew up in my grandparent’s house until I was eight, when my mother married my step father. I did not realize that it was not a nuclear family in the typical definition of the word; I just know that I had my family there to support me and help me with whatever I needed.

My grandparents had nine children and it became a joke that I was the tenth child. I am very close in age to my aunts and uncles, the

I had a toxic relationship with her father and now she goes back and forth between her father and myself. My household consists of my daughter, my boyfriend, and myself. I think that households like this are becoming more common. You do not necessarily live with your “nuclear family” especially as children grow older.

My daughter’s father moved back in with his parents when we split up and that is where my daughter goes when she spends time with him. So going between the households this has created a non nuclear family life for her. On the other hand my boyfriend’s parents have been married before they had any children and are still happily married. They just had their youngest daughter move out, which now has her own child. They had a typical nuclear family.

There are still many examples of a traditional nuclear family here in the United States, as well as many examples of non-traditional families. This just depends on what peoples values and beliefs are. The line of what is traditional is becoming blurred and that line should be changed with the times. There is no longer a right and wrong with this