Many factors have influenced our contemporary understanding of family and family life. Explain
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As the United States moved into the second half of the twentieth century, a number of social and cultural, economic, and political changes occurred that continue to have an impact on today's twenty-first century families and family living: social and cultural factors, such as lowered birth rates and an increase in nonmarital cohabitation; economic factors that include the influx of women into the workforce; and political factors, such as legalized abortion in 1973 and the Civil Rights legislation of 1965 which bans racial, ethnic, and sexual discrimination.
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