How did the rise of individualism affect family structure? Did it strengthen family bonds or weaken them? Provide two examples of changing family structure in the twentieth century
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Answers will vary but correct responses should include: Even in the small nuclear families characteristic of Western society, individualism had a dissolving effect, as family activities diminished, and family members began to eat separately and scatter for entertainment to personal video screens, isolating earphones, or friendships outside the household. In the United States, fewer than one child in five was born outside wedlock in 1980 . Only 20 years later, that proportion had risen to a third. By the end of the century,two-fifths of American marriages ended in divorce. What had once been normal—parents and children sharing the same household—became exceptional. Less than a quarter of households in the United States conformed to this pattern by the end of the century.In the rapidly urbanizing environments of the world, family stability could not thrive as it had in the rural communities from which the new town dwellers came. Street children crowded towns in the developing world, becoming fodder for journalism and films, and the recruits of criminal gangs, warlords' armies, insurgents, guerrillas, and terrorists. The influence of Western lifestyles that movies, music, and broadcasting spread around the world created generation gaps everywhere. In Japan, commentators called the rootless young "new humans"—so profound was their rejection of traditional values and behavior. The same sort of phenomenon could be observed everywhere, even where urbanization was laggard. In the Muslim world, the young expected more freedom to choose marriage partners and careers, often in defiance of family conventions and parental aspirations. In South Korea and parts of Africa and the Americas, millions abjured their families altogether to join new religions and cults. Of course, every change set off reactions, and, while gaps opened between generations, chasms opened within them.
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