![]() ![]() One variation of this type is the single-parent family, which can be created by unwed motherhood, divorce, or death of a spouse. This is the family type that is mostly preferred. The Nuclear Family is a family group consisting of a mother and a father and their children. Most modern families take one of two forms: nuclear or blended. In 2012, only 4.6 percent of all US households had multi-generational family members living in them (retrieved 6 June 2014 from SOURCE America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012, P20-570). ![]() around the year 1900 most families had three generations living in one home (i.e., children, parents, and grandparents). The family structures that were very common a century ago are not nearly as common today. Sociologists allow us to understand the larger social and personal-level trends in families. They function in a core assessment role for describing, explaining, and predicting family-based social patterns for the United States and other countries of the world. Sociologists are leaders among scientists who study the family. In all societies, the family is the premier institution for all of the following: socialization of children, adult intimate relationships, lifelong economic support and cooperation, and continuity of relationships along the life course. Call it bias or just common sense, if you read this book you'll find more answers than questions. I want to tell students what works, what doesn't work, and how to tell the difference in finding real solutions to their own life troubles. It is not enough for me to simply spread facts. My purpose in teaching about the family is to provide you with information that is scientifically sound and practically useful. I have honored that professional commitment ever since. My first full-time gig as a professor of sociology was in a community college where administrators demanded that we provide a service to our students that was worth the money they paid us for teaching. Most of my students did not continue on in the field of family studies, but a few are now professors in their own right and others are therapists practicing in their communities. I have taught thousands of students how to understand the family using sociology as a framework for gaining insight and expertise. in Sociology of Family Studies from Brigham Young University (Class of 1991) and have taught Sociology of the Family for over 30 years. As of the writing of this edition, over 500,000 students have used our free books and many of them live in many diverse countries around the world. ![]() I am the author and have worked with my own university students over these recent years to provide open courseware free textbooks for anyone, anywhere who would like to read them. Welcome to this Sociology of the Family Free Online textbook. ![]()
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