Marriage and Commitment: Early Stages of Marriage
Marriage tends to go through various phases and stages. During the early years of marriage, newlyweds settle into their new positions as husband and wife. The arrival of the first child may be the least happy time in the career of a marriage, a ti...
Parents and Children.: Changes in Childcare
In many families today, the job of childcare has been farmed out. While some see this as a source of serious family problems, others contend the impact of outside-the-home childcare has been mostly positive. Still, many experts contend that the ch...
Face to Face: The Power of Words
Perhaps nowhere is the fusion of language and emotion more visible and more combustible than in the world of politics, where complex issues and positions are often reduced to labels and highly-charged code words.
Face To Face: Power of Language, The
Gestures, facial expressions and other variations in body language can certainly play a significant role in social interaction. But it's the actual words and language that people use that often determine how those individuals relate to one another,...
The Role of Gender: Changing Gender Roles at Home
The rapidly increasing number of women in the labor force has been both a cause and effect of the shift in gender roles in recent years. Women have had less time and often less energy to devote to their traditional role as homemaker. This has trig...
Family History: Changes in the American Family Since 1970
There has been an enormous shift in American family life since 1970. For example, childcare has become the most pressing problem in many American households, and gender roles have been substantially redefined. Many believe both of these facts can ...
Waves of Change: Examples of Social Change
Social change has thundered across the American landscape in countless ways since the Second World War. A good example is the American family, which has been fundamentally altered because most women, as well as men, now work outside the home.
Families Today and Tomorrow: Family Challenges: Childcare
The growing participation of women in the labor force has led to dramatic changes in family life in the United States, particularly as regards children and childcare.
Working: Working Women and Childcare
Finding suitable childcare has increasingly become an important issue for nearly all working parents. In large part, this has come about because massive structural changes in the U.S. economy have brought working women into the labor force in grea...
Working: Government, Business and Family Policy
At one time, businesses didn't have to worry about families because most women were home taking care of their children full-time. With women now in the workforce in large numbers, that has changed. Still, many companies consider family challenges ...