Changing Definition of Families Today

Write a paper based on research dealing with the changing definition of families today, the different types of families there are along with any related term applied to this new generational module of families. Family composition has changed much in the last hundred years. The "traditional family" -- once identified as a married couple who are the biological parents of the children in the household with father working outside of the home and mother in …showed first 75 words of 830 total…

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