Furthermore, if society is to continue, then people must be motivated to carry on and not to drop out. The Traditional family effectively ensures the continuation of society.
Some of the main problems of Traditional families include:-
- Domestic violence – the most common place to be a victim of a physical attack is the home.
- Exploitation of women – women carry out the main childcare activities and household chores.
- Child Abuse – abuse against children takes four main forms, (physical, emotional, sexual and neglect) which causes some families to break up due to their child/children’s unhappiness.
- Constant conflict between parents – this causes discomfort in household and psychological problems in the children’s minds later in life. This disrupts family life causing divorces which affects the society in many ways.
Feminists believe that domestic violence is always by the male partner on the female. The British crime server (a government study of crime levels) suggests that only about 50% of the people attacked ever report it to the police because of:-
- Fear of their partner
- Embarrassment
- The belief that they may be to blame of their partners’ violence.
It is said that the decline of traditional family is raising concern among some sociologists and policymakers. The increasing rates of divorce and cohabitation, two of the trends that mark this decline, illustrate Americans' paradoxical attitude toward marriage and family. More and more people are cohabiting and getting divorced which explains the reason why traditional family numbers are falling at a very fast rate.
More over, a lot of people prefer to be lone parent families today. Their economic situation is average, not to bad, and people are happy to bring up their children on their own. This means that more and more single parents choose not to marry again and to look after their children on their own instead of remarrying and forming another family.
In conclusion I believe that traditional family can not be detrimental for society. This is because I believe that it does not affect the society in a way that is more important than the health and happiness of children and their parents. For example, if domestic violence was being used in the marriage than the best thing to do would be to divorce so as this is the couples’ decision, I think the idea of divorce should have no effect on the society as I do not see how a traditional family can be detrimental to society. I agree with the feminists and believe that women are exploited in marriages. I do not agree with the statement “The decline of Traditional family is detrimental to society” because although traditional families add to the whole picture of society I think it is not important what other people think and how other people see our society. I believe that the decline of traditional marriage has no effect on people socialising and I feel that an individual does not need to be part of a traditional family to play a full part in society.
