The Family: Changing structures in modern society

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The Family

I believe that a family can be many things, and that it can be made of many things.

It can be the solid rock in you life, the thing that keeps you from going backwards, or it can be the thing that stops you from going forward.

But the family is no longer what it used to be. The family, and our view on what a family is, is changing along with our society. The family is not as important to the individual as it used to be. The late modern society, which we live in, is teaching us how to be more independent. It is no longer an important thing to have a family, to be an individual.

Since the beginning of mankind, the normal procedure of the life being lived, was to work, find a partner to love, share your life with and have children with, and up to about 50 years ago, those things belonged together. Now it is more ore less, common to pick one thing and leave the other out, not because it is a new link in the evolutional chain to make children without the other sex, but because we have the opportunity to do it.