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The American Family Structure in Future
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The American Family Structure in Future
The United States of America is a big country with a population of more than 327.2 million people. They have occupied geographical spaces in different regions of the country in the form of tribes, groups, societies, and families. However, the most modern form of individuals living collectively occupying geographical space is society. A society is usually made up of many families. Currently, there are approximately 83.09 million families living in the United States of America, with an average family size of 3.14 persons per family (Noble, et. al, 2015). This number is much less as compared to 3.7 members of an average family in the country of America in the 1960s.
The future of family structure in the United States of America is quite different from the families that used to exist in the past or those that exist. There would be a lot of changes in the near and far future in the American family structure that will become a norm in the families. Some of these changes could be disturbing for the social fabric as the families will shrink more, and the average number of persons may shrink down to three or even two. Advancements in technology will drift the members of the family apart and generation gaps will increase.
Personally, I would like to see some positive changes in the American family structure in the next forty or fifty years. These changes include people spending more time with their families and providing relaxation in the work-life structure so that the members of the family can get more time to spend with each other. Another change that I would like to see personally in the American family structure is a reduction in the rate of the tradition of sending old grandparents or parents to old age homes. This is would also help in the passing on the positive traditions down the generations which will ultimately make the society a better place to live in.
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Noble, K. G., Houston, S. M., Brito, N. H., Bartsch, H., Kan, E., Kuperman, J. M., ... & Schork, N. J. (2015). Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents. Nature Neuroscience, 18(5), 773.
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