Family’s crisis

18/11/2008
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Antonia Cordedda

Family’s crisis

Often it is heard to talk about family like of the last defence of stability in a complex and many-sided society like ours. In reality, in the family has endured in course of the centuries, drastic changes increasing and shrinking itself, losing some functions and acquiring some others; from the patriarchal model to the matriarchal one until the crisis of the familiar system in the present life days.

The reason of this crisis, in my opinion, is connected with the perennial discrimination of different individual needs. In particular when the member of the family become conscious of it problems such as homosexuality or role’s women in the family begin arise. The homosexual members of the family, for example, have a different outlook on a family in its self, whereas the traditional family composed of mother and father creates a new form of the family becoming a single post modern family.
Women, in particular, always were obligated to renounce of their rights because of the family’s or society’s expectations. Since childhood every woman’s individual choice was influenced by traditional stereotypes of the family’s secondary and servicing role. Nowadays, thanks to rights acquired by suffragette in the early 20 century and the feminist movement in the 70s in many countries a woman’s figure has changed significantly. The woman became an independent member of the society having rights of vote, education, work and personal choice, being aware of conscious maternity and acquirement of the equal rights between the couple.

All those aspects have created a conflict between a couple and increased number of marriages ending in divorces or renounced of legal marriage agreement. I shudder at the thought that this situation had its beginning with a women’s struggle with the men’s world.






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