Family Building

The destruction of family building, a place where parents and their children live besama, has spawned a new variety of families in Western countries. The appearance of single family model parents or single parents that covers one third of the families in the U.S. today, and the majority of families in Europe, has ignited many new questions for the sociologists and psychologists.

A number of thorny issues, such as mental stress, educational issues, and future of their children as well as psychological and physical crises that accompany the single parent family is the fundamental problem of Western society today.

Now, the traditional family model which consists of husband, wife and children have been transformed into another model. Kian development of families without fathers and mothers, children without guardians, or children who are accustomed to living with their grandparents, or a life together without the bond of husband and wife, is another model of a modern family that has drawn much concern at the global level.

A number of sociologists such as, Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards, rate, now this is happening long-term changes in family models and relationships between men and women. Economic pressures, the demands of each spouse's career, and becoming independent relationship outside of marriage are a number of factors causing these changes.

Pulling some data about the collapse of the family in the West sturuktur indicated that the social institutions that one is experiencing severe damage and require more serious attention. Based on existing reports, in 2000, more than 13 million people from its U.S. parent is the guardian of the 21 million children and teenagers (the new kid gede). Ironically, this U.S. children live with only one of their parents. Meanwhile, more than 5 million U.S. children are forced to live with their grandparents. Other news also mentioned, that the number of widows in the U.S. in 1970 samapai 2000, an increase from three million to 10 million.

Recently, in commemoration of the World Family, a large number of Italian citizens staged a demonstration on their own initiative, to express the importance of maintaining the integrity of the family banguanan. Demonstrations that followed more than a million people thronged the Italian city's main streets shouting Roman yells 'Family Life'. This action of their degree as an attempt to preserve the traditional model of the institution of family which consists of father, mother and child.

The demonstrators also protested the plan to Prime Minister of Italy, Romano Prodi will officially recognize homosexual couples. Demonstration was followed by a number of political figures. In addition, the protesters also warned about the dangers of unlimited freedom and oppose same-sex couples marriage model. This is one positive step at the beginning of the 21st century as an action alert to maintain the existence of family structure as the most basic foundation of a healthy society.