Essay About Drug Dealers And Idea Of The Traditional Family

Families Case
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I would have to agree that families have changed since the 1960s. There are more single
parent homes today, than ever before. The idea of the traditional family has changed as well.
Before when would speak of a family one would think of a woman and a man, married, with a
child or children. In todays society a family can consist of a single woman and child or children,
a single man and his child or children, two woman raising a child/ children, two men raising a
child/children, or the grandparent or grandparents are raising their grandchildren.
The family is the first place that a child learns about socialization. In most cases productive
children come from productive backgrounds, and unproductive or unstable environments can
produce unstable adults. Unstable or unproductive adults are not a contribution to society.
Usually they dont possess the necessary skills required to being a productive citizen of America.
Drugs have had an impact on families and what is known as a family. Because of drugs there
are more fatherless homes. When crack cocaine hit in the 1980s there was a decrease in
motherless homes as well. Mothers were leaving their children, and selling their children for
drugs. Some of the children who had to endure this while growing up in these conditions became
drug dealers themselves or became dependent on drugs, or may have abandonment issues.
I also believe that government benefits like welfare, helped to destroy the traditional family as
well. Fathers were no longer needed to take care of the family and required to work. Woman
became lazy and had more children to increase their benefits.
Since the 1960s the divorce rate has increased and there are fewer marriages. Women today
are more compelled to further their education these days, verses getting married at a young age
and bearing children. Fathers in our culture are not forcing their daughters to marry a guy just
because he impregnates her. In a sense I feel that families are becoming weaker based on how I
was raised