Effects Of Family Relationships In The 1960s

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Family relationships in general are affected by historical events in an obvious way. Gender roles were not in dispute leading up to the 1960s, for wives and husbands were coworkers in the family activity. Children were welcomed as coworkers, and as a source of security in illness and old age. Family relationship changed in the 1920s due to people leaving the farms to work in urban centers. The Industrial Revolution is the reason (cause) the “Joint family” (Encyclopedia) unit broke down when workers moved to cities for jobs. The joint family included Grandparents, Aunts, Uncle, Cousins, etc.. At this time Progressives notice changes (effects) such as: courtship now dating, women smoking cigarettes, Jazz music, perfume, and dress styles, to name a few symptoms of coming change. These changes were not fads. When the ideas of the late 19th and early 20th century found support in business and government law and courts many people departed from the nuclear family ideal in the 1960s because a family relationship if close and loving became …show more content…

The answer is, there is nowhere else to look to prepare for the future. History is not a series of random acts but events triggered by human behavior (business & government). The family events of the 1960s had a number of cause and effect sequences which may take place again. The ideas of the late 19th and early 20th century developed among individuals and small groups. After the turmoil of the Great Depression and World War II all that was needed was for business to undermine the family order and the Federal Government to abandon the Constitution. The world has not ended. Close and loving families are still with us, as well as families with insufferable problems. What I have learned is that God made us free and we, through the pages of history, still don 't know how to handle

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