Changes in the Family & Family Roles
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In his book, Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000, Gsran Therborn discusses changes in the family and family roles over the past century1. He points out that though people hold strong views on the subject, few are truly aware of the facts. Although the high rate of divorce in the US is often cited, being around 50 percent, he points out that Muslim Malaya had a 50 percent divorce rate up to the middle of the 20th century and that there is more domestic work gender bias in the United States than in China. Despite globalization and many common developments worldwide, family patterns have not changed in a global manner. In the early 19th century, the world was divided into five family systems, the US favoring the European model over those of Africa and Asia, which is not surprising since the early immigrants to the US were European origin. In the American Creole culture, male power was macho, and the family system was patriarchal for the great majority up until the 20th century1. The power was vested in the older males over the young of both sexes and in the institutionalized power of men over women. The rise of an industrial capitalist society protected and reproduced patriarchy because until the rise of corporate business, it was not a system existing primarily on the basis of market rationality. The patriarchal family was considered a heavy social anchor and an essential mechanism for economic enterprise. A prosperous industrial capitalism turned t
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e will persist, but with newly defined roles for the married man.
In her book Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation, Nancy Cott argues that around the turn of the 20th century, marriage turned from citizenship to economic issues as the state became increasingly involved in the lives of citizens through schooling, taxation and employment, so no longer needed marriage to control them5. She says that while a lot has been written about the personal experience of marriage and how it affects husbands as well as wives, little has been said about it as a political institution. She claims marriage in the United States, the Christian monogamy model with the husband as the primary breadwinner, has been embedded and supported by the political framework of the nation, which has shaped what the married man and wife are. The pairing of monogamy with representative government was contrasted with polygamy paired with despotism. That is why the federal government campaigned against the Mormons for practicing polygamy in the 19th century.
Marriage was used to stabilize sex and labor and their consequences - children and property5. It was constructed as a tool to define who belonged to the nation and to lend legitimacy to the r
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