The nuclear family undermined
September 21, 2012 3:57 AM Subscribe
Why is the nuclear family unit being systematically undermined?
Brazen macro patterns in culture but most prominently in high funded media such as the news and film.
Do all the following areas have a side effect of undermining the previous notions of family?
- progress in gender equality particularly with careers
( http://www.phil.uu.nl/~joel/research/publications/equalfamily.htm )
- gender inequality in other areas; fathers4justice, unbalance divorce laws, maternity and paternity leave
- broken families the norm in film and TV
- adultery celebrated by media; aka it's OK to cheat if you are unsatisfied or unhappy in a marriage. Now couples fight once and give up. In the 50's we had decades of plate slinging.
- Gay representation in media. Why is it in vogue to act a queen while the every day straight acting guy is ignored. Does a gay family blur our concept of family? Does a gay family have a higher chance of having 2 career parents? So many gay people in media that some straight actors have expressed jealously. Are activists being played for fools?
- Paedophobia. Undermining the authority of the father primarily
- social care & increased schooling (earlier starts, longer adult ed at University. Is social care doing better than health care)
- Islamophobia, seeing as Islam tends towards a traditionalist view on many of the above subjects
It's just too much to be a random pattern. What is the goal of this? Who is doing this and why?
Although I feel like a dinosaur by coming from a traditional family I'm not necessarily against the changes. But I do want to understand them.
To understand this can be the beginning to come to terms with it.
Then again, could it be the other way round; the family is the problem and everything else is the reaction? What would be the driving force for that?
Brazen macro patterns in culture but most prominently in high funded media such as the news and film.
Do all the following areas have a side effect of undermining the previous notions of family?
- progress in gender equality particularly with careers
( http://www.phil.uu.nl/~joel/research/publications/equalfamily.htm )
- gender inequality in other areas; fathers4justice, unbalance divorce laws, maternity and paternity leave
- broken families the norm in film and TV
- adultery celebrated by media; aka it's OK to cheat if you are unsatisfied or unhappy in a marriage. Now couples fight once and give up. In the 50's we had decades of plate slinging.
- Gay representation in media. Why is it in vogue to act a queen while the every day straight acting guy is ignored. Does a gay family blur our concept of family? Does a gay family have a higher chance of having 2 career parents? So many gay people in media that some straight actors have expressed jealously. Are activists being played for fools?
- Paedophobia. Undermining the authority of the father primarily
- social care & increased schooling (earlier starts, longer adult ed at University. Is social care doing better than health care)
- Islamophobia, seeing as Islam tends towards a traditionalist view on many of the above subjects
It's just too much to be a random pattern. What is the goal of this? Who is doing this and why?
Although I feel like a dinosaur by coming from a traditional family I'm not necessarily against the changes. But I do want to understand them.
To understand this can be the beginning to come to terms with it.
Then again, could it be the other way round; the family is the problem and everything else is the reaction? What would be the driving force for that?
This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, but this more chatfilter or "debatefilter" rather than a concrete problem to be solved, and not what Ask Metafilter is for. -- taz
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posted by chesty_a_arthur at 4:04 AM on September 21, 2012