The relationship between husbands and wives in the emergent modern family with their relationship in the colonial United Stated has some differences. During the early colonial era, marriages were agreed upon based on social and economic purposes. Both husband and wife were not romantically in love, but their marriage was more of an agreement. Women played a valuable role in the colonial era; they worked in the family settings, outside of the home and wives were subordinate to their husbands. However, the emergent modern family felt romantic love and affection replaced the economic concerns in deciding on marital partners. Sociologist agrees, in the latter part of the eighteenth century revealed that romantic love was thought to be the basis of an ideal marriage. Middle-class women focused on roles as homemaker and caregivers rather that worker.
2. The societal assumptions about children during the colonial period with those that emerged with the modern family differ in many
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Evidence offered by the text that gives a distinction between the public sphere and private sphere diversion dichotomy is untrue or false. The family has linked themselves to economic, social and political structures. For instance, families continue to protect their children from society. However, they still link themselves to the demands of jobs, careers, schools and social institutions. Family life was continually embraced by the requirements of these systems and cannot function as a haven.
7. The first element is the family a nuclear unit (separate from society but independent from kin/ mainly married couples). The second element consists of a father as the breadwinner (provides for the family financially), mother as the caregiver (loving, compassionate, cook, clean, care for children and set standards at for the home) and children (both care for the child’s well-being). The third element is the family has assumed a sexual division of labor: the breadwinner husband and a full-time