My Grandparent Era

Marriage and the traditional family unit is key to the success of any society even today in the United States. Family is the building block of civilization; Furth more, higher civilization is not possible without family, which is male and female marriage (Prager). Family’s make up cities, cities make up provinces or states, states make up nations. The family unit is a

families were separated from each other. They had to start getting married at very young ages the

The marriage is one of the best things to make a happy life. Many years ago, parents had arranged marriages for their children. In Asia, as the customs of Vietnam, parents who decide and arrange the marriages of their children. Normally, parents flanked by close friends so they wanted their children to marry parent friend’s children, and gratitude between them will be even stronger together. Additionally, parents arranged for their children to marry the wealthy children to give their children full life. Also, parents choose their child partners and it is their customs. These children have no right to disobey and reject marriage. Their children married without ever knowing each other or see each other 's face. According to the book “The Immigrant Advantage,” it has a story of the Indian girl married under the marriage arranged by her parents. Until now, the Indian customs that still exist. Not only in India, in other countries, there is still customary marriages arranged by parents. Vietnam is no longer

Their families administered the wedding process before, during and after the ceremony. It appeared to be based upon who has the most land, how much money everyone had and more about the profit from the marriage. Marriages never developed off of the husband and wife’s feelings until the late eighteen hundreds, soon ideals began to shift. Soon people started detecting an increase of love, as explained in Colonial Williamsburg, “With the rise of the affectionate family, arranged marriages became a thing of the past. While parents expected to be consulted and offered advice or criticism freely, men and women chose their own marriage partners, and parents usually accepted their children’s choices,” (Maurer). Weddings exhibited less conventional traditions as the years moved on and, the parents became less and less involved in the decision making of their child’s spouse. This upset the parents because they did not collect any profit from their child’s marriage arrangement. While both partner’s choice became important during the wedding, the ceremony still placed many restrictions towards how women could act, and how they performed

In this chapter of, Families as they really are, Coontz, a professor of history, asserts the theme of how as time went on the definition of a family has altered. Coontz begins this chapter by showing how every area in the world has a different definition of what is a family. Specifically, in the United States, the definition of a family has altered from the early colonial times to today. She explains the differences of the how every race has a different meaning for families. According to Coontz, originally a family could be considered anybody within the kin. Also, people in the early days did not marry because of love. People got married because of social and financial benefits. Another point that was emphasized by Coontz, was how originally there was not formalities for a marriage. A marriage was just two people that are close to each other. However, as time went on documentation was given out of a valid marriage. Coontz, goes on to state how in the 1950s all of this started to change. Families started to live together, the husband and wife got married because they both love each other. This was the time period where the nuclear family started to be the ideal family of a husband being the breadwinner, and the wife as a stay at home mother, and two children going to school. Coontz, concludes with how the definition and perspective of a family has changed over time, and will keep on changing.

Jewish parents had strict control over whom their children married, and made arrangements through a matchmaker or marriage broker (Freeze, Jewish Marriage and Divorce, 12). Often times, the two parties which were to be married only met at the altar, when all marriage arrangements were completed by their parents (Id, 13). Marriage contracts without the permission of one’s father were punishable (14). However, in the nineteenth century, the matchmaker started becoming less and less popular, and parents began being more liberal with their children’s marriage arrangements. Young couples were now allowed to communicate prior to their marriage by writing letters and being allowed short and supervised meetings (23). Increasingly, young couples began to take marriage into their own hands without seeking the involvement of their parents.

In the Colonial period, single men and women were typically guided into a courtship by their parents. Most families preferred to have their children marry someone of equal or higher status and would scout potential spouses on their children's' behalf. The majority of partnerships were arranged regardless of the emotional bonds or lack thereof that they felt for their future spouse, but some young people took it upon themselves to follow their emotions and peruse who they thought would be a good spouse. In this case, the male in the blossoming relationship would approach the parents of his desired wife and ask for their daughter's hand in marriage, but the decision was left up to the most influential relatives in the family. The situation would

Most people arrange marriages for their off springs because they think that they can find a more suitable mate for their offsprings and they believe that their offsprings should be married to someone of their own family status, the same salary and the same religion. Marriages continue to be arranged in order to enhance family resources, reputation, and alliances, and because parents and older relatives feel that they are more qualified than young people to make such decisions. In today's society parents are giving their children more power (not all the power) to make somewhat of a decision on who they're going to get married to. Some families still have strict rules on who their offsprings are going to marry but they still give

Marriage was seen as an opportunity to move up the social ladder and the goal was to have children. However marriages also provided comfort and companionship (Andrews 87). In order for a marriage to occur the woman’s father would offer the future husband a dowry in order to assure the new couple could live comfortably in their new life (Andrews 88). If a couple intended to get married there were many steps that needed to be taken so society would accept the marriage.

The example is followed by some simple statistics and facts comparing marriage in Japan to the rest of the world. Japan’s divorce rate is less than half the divorce rate of the United States’ even though it is at a record high. It is shared that the traditional family structure is crumbling in the US and Europe while Japan’s is still going strong. Kristof also supports the strength of the family structure by offering the evidence of a study that was published by the Population Council declaring that the rate of two family traditional household is falling significantly worldwide with one

The simplest and most basic foundation of a sociological civilization or group begins at the core center of sociology; which is marriage and the inner-fabric creation of a family. It is said that matches are made in heaven, however finding and defining your “soul mate” differs from one social group to the next. The social institution of marriage changes and adapts consistently through time, religious practice, and national beliefs. Many people believe they lead happy and satisfying lives without a marital partner, as others highly value and desire a life-long marital partner as the pinnacle achievement of their life.

My Great Aunt grew up in an era where women could not be whatever they wanted. They had to stay home, take care of children, and clean house; it was their duty. When she rebelled against this and majored in science, something thought to be solely for men, she was harassed daily in an attempt to get her to drop out or switch to something “more appropriate for a woman.” While she would be working in the laboratory, men from other departments walked in and ripped open her lab coat to see her breasts. Then they would remind her that they were the reason she did not belong there; they said that her body was meant for having babies- not conducting experiments. It was nearly an everyday battle to do what she loved with all the humiliation and degradation she experienced. Her own husband thought it was an embarrassment to have his wife working outside of the home. She was forced to walk a block from the facility just to be picked up since he did not want to be seen picking up a woman from work. When I hear her talk about it, I cannot believe what all she had to go through. If somebody experienced that in a workplace nowadays, there would be a complete uproar. Most of us could not even imagine it the status of women being like they were then with the shift in attention towards gender equality, otherwise known as feminism. With this recent surge in support towards the feminist movement, international policy makers profess they have taken considerable actions; nonetheless, no

Marriage was the first step towards construction a family that is happy. Without legitimate relationship, a family will not be built. However, there are various factors that can be decisive factor like experience, age and family. Already become a trend or normal thing among society nowadays when young people that still not yet ended the learning and there is no source of income immobile already has family. This phenomenon had become a normal thing in most university or tertiary education. There is literature review from reading material.

The nuclear family consisting of a husband, wife, and children is becoming predominant in contemporary South Korea.

In the generation where my grandparents came from, marriages were purely arranged by the elderly. Mothers or aunts usually selected a marriage partner for their sons. My grandparents got married when both of them were very