She states, “First, no single traditional family existed to which we could return, and none of the many varieties of families in our past has had any magic formula for protecting its members from the vicissitudes of socioeconomic change, the inequities of class, race, and gender, or the consequences of interpersonal conflict” (22). Families started to improve throughout time. They started to be more emotional towards one another. Koontz explains, “Not until the 1920s did a bare majority of children come to live in a male breadwinner-female homemaker family, and even at the height of this family form in the 1950s, only 60 percent of American children spent their entire childhoods in such a family” (23). Back then, it was known that men’s will be the breadwinner and the women will a homemaker. They moved away towards this old tradition into something new. Families started to be more involved with each other and more emotions started to develop for each other. The old traditions started to fade away, and new ones came in. In today’s world every family is different. No family has the same old
She states, “First, no single traditional family existed to which we could return, and none of the many varieties of families in our past has had any magic formula for protecting its members from the vicissitudes of socioeconomic change, the inequities of class, race, and gender, or the consequences of interpersonal conflict” (22). Families started to improve throughout time. They started to be more emotional towards one another. Koontz explains, “Not until the 1920s did a bare majority of children come to live in a male breadwinner-female homemaker family, and even at the height of this family form in the 1950s, only 60 percent of American children spent their entire childhoods in such a family” (23). Back then, it was known that men’s will be the breadwinner and the women will a homemaker. They moved away towards this old tradition into something new. Families started to be more involved with each other and more emotions started to develop for each other. The old traditions started to fade away, and new ones came in. In today’s world every family is different. No family has the same old