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The begging of family
The beginning is unclear for when the family started. There is evidence that family organizations have been around for millions of years -
Agriculture Stage
Before the Industrial Revolution families tended to be bigger so there were enough hands to handle all the work. Work was farming and tending to the house chores. -
Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution saw a move from work being done on farms and having big families to handle it to men travelling to work and home roles being diverted to women. -
Ellen Swallow Richards
Was the first women to attend MIT. Started the New England Kitchen which feed the poor people for lower cost. Which lead to the Rumford Kitchen. This kitchen taught about nutrition while feeding people. Eventually had a hand in starting the school lunch program. Ellen started the home economics because she became interested in the science of running a home. People would ask her what does it take to run a good home. -
Perfect family
For a while the model family was husband, wife, and two children. With the man being the bread winner of the family. However, this theory known as the Family Development Theory struggled to maintain a distinctive position in the family theory. -
Perfect family
For a while the model family was husband, wife, and two children. With the man being the bread winner of the family. However, this theory known as the Family Development Theory struggled to maintain a distinctive position in the family theory. -
Feminist perspective
Roughly in the 1960's with the Civil Rights Movement and the dramatic increase of women in the workplace we started seeing a shift in the roles of the home. -
Resourse Impact
Family Resource Management can affect just the family like with Symbolic Interactionism Theory where families build identities over time through shared beliefs and rituals. While other times if an event affects one family member, all the family members are affected sometimes the community like in Family Systems Theory. -
Family change
With family structures constantly evolving the concept of "family" is becoming more and more diverse.
What family looks like change with norms and the legalization of gay marriage. Marriage rates are dropping and single-parent households are increasing. -
Citations
Family Resource Management 4th Edition
https://www.aafcs.org/partnership/about-aafcs
https://www.albert.io/blog/industrial-revolution-ap-us-history-crash-course/ Ellen Swallow Richards – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEI_I61eOzY -
Today family
Researchers have been unable to find a picture of family that would represent what it has come to mean today or what it will be in the future. The definition of family must be broad and flexible.