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18th century family
the term family included not only immediate blood relatives in the household but also servants and other relatives in residence. The criteria to be considered family was an individual’s dependence on the head of household for basic needs. -
Democratic Family
Late18th century where family was considered a separate and private group in society. Mates were selected through preferences and children were nurtured. Creating and maintaining a family was seen as an obligation. Husbands went to work outside the home, and wives were expected to stay home with children. -
Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution forced men and women to move into different impacts of influence. Men had to travel for work and women were left with all of the at home duties. Most had to tend to the farm. -
Ellen Swallow Richards
She was the first woman to be accepted into MIT. She later became the reason a woman laboratory was opened there in 1876. Her later work included in 1890, the New England Kitchen was opened In 1897 she helped organize a school of housekeeping.In 1899 Richards called a summer conference of workers at Lake Placid, New York where the term home economics was discovered. In December 1908 the American Home Economics Association, of which Richards was elected first president. -
companionate family
By the 20th century, the second phase, the companionate family, had become the most common family form. In the companionate family, husbands and wives were partners who married because they loved each other, rather than out of a sense of duty. -
Theory of Motivation
Abraham Maslow presented his theory of motivation, with its famous visual pyramid of needs. Women started to become more motivated to have an income of their own, and families started working outside of what they inherited -
Introducing the Feminist Perspective
The role women played at home and the workforce started to change. People stopped looking at the role men played started looking at things from the viewpoints of women. Women and the roles they played became more noticed. -
Lifestyle change
by 2012 17% of women and 23% of men claimed to be happily unmarried. This is due to more people waiting to get married later in life and cohabitation being more accepted. -
Family Today
Although many changes have taken place and the family may be difficult to define, the concept of family is an integral part of the fabric of American culture. Policymakers, educators, and service providers acknowledge the importance of the family as the core of individual well-being and growth.
Less emphasis was placed on work performance within the home, and more energy was devoted to understand- ing the family unit and its interaction with the greater social structure. -
sources
Barnes, Matthew. Classics in the History of Psychology -- A. H. Maslow (1943) a Theory of Human Motivation, psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm. Accessed 6 Feb. 2024. “Ellen Swallow Richards.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., www.britannica.com/biography/Ellen-Swallow-Richards. Accessed 6 Feb. 2024. Moore, Tami James, and Sylvia M. Asay. Family Resource Management. SAGE Publishing, 2021.