In the 1960s, the American family consisted of four or five members, called the nuclear family: father, mother, and two or three children. Where the father worked full-time the mother usually stayed home as a housewife. The traditional family has been changing rapidly enduring many changes in the recent decades. Changes such as structural and values regarding marriage and divorce, gender roles and same sex or homosexual families are noticeable changes that today's families have …showed first 75 words of 605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 605 total…over the last generation. The basic structures of the family along with the traditional family values have been transformed, and similar attitudes have also been reshaped. Families are smaller and less stable making marriage less important and the gender roles involved with marriage have become less traditional. Americans have been more accepting to these changes, while during the 1950s they were not. Maybe society today is better now than it was before in the past.