What do you think are some of the most significant changes in family form and organisation; why are these changes significant?

I don't understand the question, please elaborate.

Will I still pass the test if I skip the essay question?

Is this a question from someone's homework and they're trying to get the answer here? This is Survey Central not Social Studies Test Central.

Less children...my mom and my dad both had siblings out the kazoo...i was an only child...until age 12..then they decided to produce offspring again...but it was too late...I was already in "loner" mode...

now that i look at the question...it does look like an end of the chapter question...lmao

I think the major familial change in recent years is the increasing isolation of single-generation family units from any community. I think this has incredibly wide-reaching effects, including everything from increased sexual activity among women, increased divorce rates, increased domestic abuse, increased nursing home use and abuse, increased drug abuse, yadda, yadda, yadda. I think the community and extended family, with all their restrictive and repressive aspects, exerted a strong cohesive force.

Lulu: I think I would use hunter's answer if I were you (leaving out the "yadda yadda" part). Let us know what grade she got

Bleh, essay question.

This is a really vague question. What family? change since when? I'll need more info before I can answer. An explanation of the question would have helped clarify.

Arrgh! Must...fight..overwhelming vagueness.. too.. broad.. topic.. noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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I don't like the essay questions. Give us choices to pick from. The changes have been written about and analyzed continuously - the breakup of the nuclear family (two parents & child[ren]). The more and more common single parent family. Significance? Because of the pressures it puts on all the members, often an increase in the need for social services and a lack of differing views and ideas and a lack of support.

bad bad survey!

e-gad, did I wake up in sociology class?

I really don't understand the question?
family form? organization?
it takes two consenting adults of opposite sex (and appropriate age) to create a child. what happens after is not much different now that it has been in the past. you have either a single parent raising it, both parents, or it is raised by someone other than the parents. Until we get into cloning and asexual reproduction, I don't think things will be different from what they are now and what they were in the past.

erm.... pass?

It's not clear whether the author means ongoing changes in today's society, or changes in human family organization on a historical (or prehistoric) time scale. I would say the advent of the American "nuclear family" with its associated twisting of societal structure and values has been a doozie.

What??? I don't understand the question.

I don't understand the question.

Could you please explain the question?

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