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The Fallout of the NUCLEAR FAMILY

The Fallout of the NUCLEAR FAMILY. LIFESTYLE SHIFTS OVER THE LAST 60 YEARS. What is a nuclear family. According to our text book, Sociology , A Nuclear Family consists of a husband, wife, and dependent children who live apart from other relatives in their own residence. The point?.

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The Fallout of the NUCLEAR FAMILY

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  1. The Fallout of the NUCLEAR FAMILY LIFESTYLE SHIFTS OVER THE LAST 60 YEARS

  2. What is a nuclear family • According to our text book, Sociology, A Nuclear Family consists of a husband, wife, and dependent children who live apart from other relatives in their own residence.

  3. The point? • INDUSTRIALIZATION + URBANIZATION= MODERNIZATION

  4. Let’s Discuss… • The 1950’s Nuclear Family • The 1960’s to the 1980’s Transitional Family • Todays Modern Family

  5. 1950’S

  6. NUCLEAR FAMILY • Husbands Responsibility: Bring home the bacon • Wife’s Responsibility: Cook the bacon • Children’s Responsibility: Eat the bacon, quietly

  7. Tv sets …the standard family

  8. Barbie gets a job 1960-1980 The Transitional Family

  9. 1960-1980 • Husband’s Responsibilities: Still in charge of bringing home the bacon and still wants a martini and slippers when he walks in the door • Wife’s Responsibilities: Uses the microwave to cook the bacon because she has a part time job now • Children’s Responsibilities: Would rather listen to 8-tracks than come home to eat the bacon.

  10. What changed? • 1960: FDA approved an oral contraceptive called The Pill

  11. Divorce Statistics through the years 1970: No Default Divorce became a nationwide reality

  12. What changed? … a lot! • 1980: Continued the trends from the 60’s and 70’s • more divorces, • more unmarrieds living together, • more single parent families. • The two-earner family was even more common than in previous decades, • more women earned college and advanced degrees, married, and had fewer children.

  13. Tv Sets…stay tuned until well after midnight The Brady Bunch The Cosby Show Murphy Brown

  14. TODAY

  15. Today’s families • Husband’s Responsibilities: Still brings home the bacon, but maybe to an empty house or to his husband • Wife’s Responsibilities: May be too busy to cook bacon and orders Chinese take-out instead • Children’s Responsibilities: Only eats bacon on burgers bought at fast food restaurants and can be found playing video games on the sofa.

  16. Tv, All day every day • Modern Family

  17. That’s a wrap • The 1950’s Family was Black and White • The Transitional Family of the 1960-1980’s was brought to you in Technicolor • Today’s Family is seen in 3-D

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