Contemporary View Of The Family

Contemperory society generally views family as ahaven from the world, supplying absolute fulfillment. The family is considered to encourage intimacy, love and trust where individualss may escape the competition of dehumanizing forces in modern society from the rough and tumble industrialized world and as a place where warmth, tenderness and understanding can be expected from a loving mother and protection from the world can be expected from the father.However, the idea of protection is declining as civil society faces less internal conflic combined with increased civil right and protection from the state. To many the ideal of personal or family fulfillment has replaced protection as the major role of the family. The family now supplies what is vitally needed but missing from other social arrangement.

Social can servatives often express concern over a purported decay of the family and see this as a sign of the crumbling of contemporary society. The fell that the family structures of the past were superior to those today and belive that families were more stable and happier at a time when they did not have to contend with problems such as illegitimate children and divorce. Others dispute this theory, claiming there is no golden age of the family gleaming at us in the far back historical pas.

A lot of societies consider inbreeding unacceptable. Scientists warn that inbreeding may raise the chances of the child getting two copies of disease-causing recessive genes and in such a way it may lead to genetic disorders and higher infant mortality.


Wan Fadilah
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