1; the first type is found in societies with a large group of families, who would be more a problem then help, for example where there would not be enough food or where high levels of geographic mobility are required.
2; the second type is where societies such as Britain, where the state provides help for the poor through Welfare State, in societies like that there is less need and hope to rely on family members.
But Nancy Gonzales rejected Murdock's definition of family, arguing that everyone had to be a nuclear family at first because everyone has got a mother and a father.
Bettleheim also argued that this does not fit Murdock's definition, on two grounds, the first ground is family do not have accommodation and secondly families do not have economic co-operation.
The second type of family is the Extended Family, this type of family usually exists of three or more generators living all together in the same house. The usual name for this type of family is a ''vertically extended group'', because the extensions to the basic family group is that there is between generator, such as grandparents rather than uncles and aunts.
O'Donnell asserted that over the past 100 years the extended family disappeared as it was being replaced by the Nuclear family as the main operating family unit.
The third type of family is the Re constitutional type, which is where parents have been divorced and remarried again, or having a step father/mother.
About a 100 years ago families lived all together, everyone knew about each other and the interactions and social skills were great at that time, the members of families showed respect and were more caring and affectionate towards each other. They knew how people in a family were like, in those times there were loads of activities for the whole family, and everyone, especially the children were a part of it. In those days families relied on each other to get through life, I.E Hunters and Farmers, they had to work all together to get through the day, everyone had a job in the house. Extended families were placed a lot of emphasis on because that was your strength and network, for example if you had to work you could let your kid at your families house.
But nowadays that has dramatically changed because no one has got time for one another, everyone is busy. There have been dramatic improvements such as transport, trying to make life more simple by inventing things such as technology, I.e. mobile phones, laptops, net-books, touch screen computers etc., one of the biggest improvements is that allowing families to be more open minded, moving further away from their traditional areas without being scared or having fears of being isolated, that is why day by day more and more women start to work outside the house. The women's role within the family was affected by World War II, they were the housewives when men went off to fight, men had a taste of being independent, and self reliance by working and earning their own money, even when the World War ended, most of them continued to work, that is why men are called bread-winners and their role is to provide for the whole family. The women's role was to do the housework, be a mother to children and to be a wife. Today's families, especially the women should take things such as the vacuum cleaner, washing machines and refrigerators for granted, because it reduced the burden of the household chores.
Family values have changed a lot such as morals, they have been swiped out of the door for many of us, that is due to not having the time to teach, both parents working to pay off debts and to fulfil their children's needs. Also a lot of children are given up to child care to do a big part of the raising. Parents nowadays have not got control of their own children, because a lot of children are going the wrong way up, they do not show respect for older people, they do not care about going to school, all they are interested in is money, which was different then. Children back in the days would do anything to go to school and get educated but they did not really have the chance.
Children now do anything they want, even behind their parents back, but in the olden days the kids did not even dare to look their parents in the eye. Life now has become more affordable and easier to live more comfortably because its getting more and more fast paced. Family members got only time to be together on weekends, since all of them are working. They are more interested in their own personal life's and prefer to hang out with friends more then their own brothers and sisters.
The media has a huge influence on people, especially the TV because it has become a source of being lazy, people watch 24/7 TV but all they watch is a waste of time. There are more divorces and less mother and father raising the children, families argue over pity things and they can go on without speaking for a years and years. There is a big lack of respect compared to 1960.
In the later part of the 20th century family life has become more complex than the extended and nuclear family types earlier. A. Kuper & J. Kuper argue that a major reason for complexity is the high level rates of divorce, co-habitation, births to unmarried women (mothers) and reconstitute families, which means remarried families. All this is because there are more diverse pathways than the recent past.
Overall we can see that there have been a lot of radical changes in the concept of family over the past 100 years. A lot of family generations lived together under the same roof or near by each other. We have moved from a time when men where the head of the family and the bread winners who provided the family and when women stayed at home as the home maker and child carer, they also used to do the household tasks which were laborious, time consuming and do things by hand because there were no such things as washing machines, vacuum cleaners etc. But over the past years technology has made the household chores easier by less time consuming. Education has improved opportunities in employment, people are more likely to get good paid jobs now. There are less children born because of the contraception although there is health care advance. The laws for women have changed, now women are equal to men, they have got the same right.
