About modern family

The most common gender stereotype is next: a man is the head of the family, he is a breadwinner and the woman is a mother, wife, keeper, teacher for children. But before you answer the question: “What stereotypes are, in your opinion, the most common in the modern family? – We need to understand what the "modern family is".

Without going into details and not plunging into the depths of the history of the family, let’s remember that we do not find a universal definition of family. Until recently it was recognized that the basis of the classical type of the patriarchal family is legally registered union between a man and woman, created for the purpose of birth and rearing of children. But in this case, the category of the family do not end up childless spouses, persons who are in registered marriage and having children together, single parents with children, etc.

At this stage of the transformation function of the family a radical change in gender and social roles of the spouses, their expectations of marriage and family life it is not appropriate to talk about family in general but about the different types of families. At present there is no definition that would adequately reflect the current state of affairs.

The answer to the question "What is the family" can consist of either a narrowing of the concept (for example, consider a family of such a society where there are dependent members), or the allocation of different types of families, as a special kind of small groups or in the determination of congestion. Depending on the "completeness" of parents and their biological or legal relationship with the children, the genesis of the formation of single-parent families, education of families on the basis of contract, etc. can count a dozen types of families. In such a variety of types of families formed a variety of behavioral practices, there are non-traditional roles and norms. The fact that the marriage is old-fashioned and a woman has the right to bear and raise a child alone, then that the modern woman may well combine work with motherhood and create normal conditions for the development of their child without a husband does not cause conviction and becomes an omen of time.

Analysis of the family as a system can be directed, in the one hand to the knowledge of its internal mechanisms for interaction, on the other - on its relationship with society. The main gender stereotypes of family are focused on relations and related roles of men and women.