Contemporary society generally views family as a haven
from the world, supplying absolute
fulfillment. The family is considered to
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escape the competition of dehumanizing forces
in modern society”, and providing love and protection from the rough
and tumble industrialized world, and as a place where warmth,
tenderness and understanding can be expected from a loving mother, and
protection from the world can be expected from the father. However,
the idea of protection is declining as civil society faces less
internal conflict combined with increased civil rights and protection
from the state. To many, the ideal of personal or family fulfillment
has replaced protection as the major role of the family. The family
now supplies what is “vitally needed but missing from other social
arrangements”.
Social conservatives often express concern over a purported decay of the family
and see this as a sign of the crumbling of contemporary society. They feel that
the family structures of the past were superior to those today and believe that
families were more stable and happier at a time when they did not have to
contend with problems such as illegitimate children and divorce. Others refute
this theory, claiming “there is no golden age of the family gleaming at us in
the far back historical past” |
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