when did the "childconsumer" emerge in American society and how does this stabilize gender roles in family
478508
ok.. the child consumer is the spoiled brat borne of a broken home.  It has disposable income that was not around 20 years ago.  and it doesn't stabilize anything.   Obviously, this question was from a teacher with an agenda.
14660
It's very obvious that boys aren't being raised that way anymore.  I find that it surprises women when you show the old fashioned respect now, such as holding a car door open or letting them go first in anything, or even picking something up that they drop.  But I agree with you, and I find it's better to carry on that tradition than to let it go.  I still believe that men should work and be the one that supports the family, but my wife doesn't agree with that because she doesn't like staying home so I'm letting her have her way until she regrets it.  I have it ingrained in me to take care of the woman and it bothers me not to, but it's not that way commonly anymore.
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I am a mom of two boys, and I hate to say it but ....... True.  But on the other hand I think generations have been leaning that way since the late 50's.  Parents want to "give" their children the best, and often times they believe that is done with money and little discipline.  Unfortunately our good intentions has created a generation that believes that everything should be given to them and not earned.
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Kids are the key to the future.  To contribute responsibility they will need to be responsible adults.  To bring children up to be responsible adults requires solid and consistent training on the part of solid, caring, consistent and responsible adults.  If the adults in a child's life are unreliable and/or unstable, the child will experience turmoil, lack of consistency, disruption, etc., which will cause disruptions in the child and often lead to irresponsible behavior in adulthood.  To be healthy, society needs the contribution of responsible adults...\n\nSociety refers to "a group of people that form a semi-closed social system, in which most interactions are with other individuals belonging to the group."1   If one grows up in a splintered and chaotic family -- the first experience of a child in society -- then one's contribution to greater society may be splintered and chaotic.
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I remember reading something about another Asian country with a high male to female ratio. The result was that any girl born was a valuable commodity and her parents would ask men for extravagent things (money, possessions, etc.) so he could marry her. It got very competitive and had societal effects.
701995
It's called reproduction.  Younger women are more likely to be able to bear children.  It's "wired" in.
1075593
Adults do not understand a child's mind. They are growing up in an entirely different society than they did no matter how much they say, It was the same thing when iwas younger
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I have read that it is a natural tendency to make sure that the man that is the provider to her and the children IS the biological father to those children.  It is a survival means.  A child that is known not to be the mans is not his responsibility to provide for that child and it puts the mother and the children that are his in Jeopardy  Women just couldn't go to a store and buy food.  Men were the hunters.  I hate to say it but there is also an instinct that men need to procreate many children and that's why there were more wives to give those children.  Now that times are different, we still have some of our old born instincts but we are more apt to control them because of what society deems right.
130964
I think dating evolved mostly because of the invention of the automobile.  Dating used to be more "bring a girl/guy home for dinner."  Now its "bring her home by 10."  We went from the front porch to the back seat!
1079407
Laziness, I guess. It seems parents do less parenting these days by working too much and leave other people to burden the responsiblity of raising their kids.
47707
Industrialization, WW1, and WW2 changed roles of women in society.  Barriers for women in corporate American are still present the glass ceiling is still there and women still make .75 cents to the 1.00 when compared to men in the corporate setting.  A women’s role is society should be the same as a mans.  Same rights and privileges.  I do believe that women and men both have the right to be stay at home parents if they chose.
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Not so difficult to answer this.  With each passing day Americans in general further decay.  But the most applicable causes are the evaporation of essential communication skills.  So much persona is necessary for shaping a flowery personality and mix in the inability to communicate with bottom line being the need for sex.  Sex has become the priority and folk say whatever they have to say in order to have it.  Like later for honest, facts-based communication which seldom arises.  Once the sexual aspects begin to flatten, divorce is just round the corner and concepts of family responsibility fail to weigh in.  We as a people are in the process of massive social decay and we basically do not care.
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You could argue, it's not directly the kids, rather the influence of many factors upon them.\n\nSome would be:\nLess restrictive upbringing. The trend these days seems to be to let kids do whatever they want with very little or no punishment, this is hopeless for instilling responsibility.\n\nInformation age. You don't have to work to find anything - it's on the internet, or you text a buddy or you call on the cell - people can get lazier.\n\nIn the US - education quality has declined - relates to responsibility and sense of self-worth.
991038
In the past, two "spinster" or unmarried women would often keep house together. Cousins and sisters also could do the same. Also, the thought of lesbian women has the affect of "turning men on" rather than revolting them as gay men do. Funny, isn't it?
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The way young people are being brought up now is very different than when I was growing up. Parents now aren't near as strict as they use to be.  If the parents of the children now were to give their children the discipline they needed instead of just giving in because of , in some cases fear then the kids now would not be in the situations they are in.  Children would not be having children and morals would be a lot different.
519605
The family has a vital role in the education of the individual. One learns the rules and customs of their society through the family unit. We are told what is "right and wrong", taught how to deal with other people and have our worldview shaped by the people who are closest to us. Since many vital life lessons are learned at a very early age, the family must prepare the individual for integration into the society at large.
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Peoples have become so spoiled to having their ways like children demanding a diet of only candy, we have people losing themselves in their egos waggling their sexuality towards one another saying oh will I be happier?  I must live to be happier.  \n\nNow where are the children in all this?  They have no rights?  They must be bounced around between parents that cannot control their desire to be free to think with their egos and genitalia?  \n\nMarriage is good because it is the business of the humans of this world to build a safe enviornment for the next.  If Marriage becomes obsolete you might as well poison your sisters because they will be used for a year or two here and there and then cast aside by a society that is not geared to protect anything but a small sect of females for about ten years if they are lucky and then cast them aside.