Contemporary society generally views family as a haven
from the world, supplying absolute
fulfillment. The family is considered to
encourage "intimacy, love and trust where individuals may escape the competition
of dehumanizing forces in modern society”, and providing love and protection
from the rough and tumble industrialized world, and as a place where warmth,
tenderness and understanding can be expected from a loving mother, and
protection from the world can be expected from the father. However, the idea of
protection is declining as civil society faces less internal conflict combined
with increased civil rights and protection from the state. To many, the ideal of
personal or family fulfillment has replaced protection as the major role of the
family. The family now supplies what is “vitally needed but missing from other
social arrangements”.
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