Changes in Family Structure, Family Values, and Politics, 1972-2006

Abstract

Family structure and family values have undergone tremendous changes over the last generation. The basic structure of the family has been reshaped and family values and related attitudes have also undergone paradigmatic shifts. Families are smaller and less stable, marriage is less central and cohabitation more common, the value of children and values for children have altered, and within marriages gender roles have become less traditional and more egalitarian in both word and practice. Collectively the alterations mark the replacement of traditional family types and family values with the emerging, modern family types and a new set of family values. Moreover, as important as the changes in family structure and family values are own their own, they take on added significance because they are tied to political attitudes and

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