The Family Today

  

There are three family types has been changed in United States. The first family type is two-career family--both father and mother have job and support the economic of the family. They share every kind of outlay like cleaning or child care. The second and third family type both cause the high divorce rate-single-parent families and stepfamilies. The single-parent families mean only father or mother with the child. Most of these families' economic status are worse than normal families, because the single-parent families only have one income, and the parent need make money and takes care the child at the same time. The stepfamilies mean the divorce men or women get married with another divorce women or men, and they may have child with the ex-wife or husband. It makes complex social status and problem.

     Compared the families status whit Taiwan and Unite States, the biggest different is in single-parent families and stepfamilies. Ten years ago, the divorce rate in Taiwan was lower than in Unite States. There were not too many single-parent families. If someone chose to be a single-parent family, he or she must had strong economic ability. If their economic ability was not strong enough, they wouldn't divorce until their children independence. Also, we almost had no stepfamilies, because the people who divorced were hard to get married again, especially when they had child. However, there has been a significant increase in divorce rate of Taiwan in least ten years; the single-parent families have become more and more common. The single-parents has increased greatly, most of them are good in economic. On other hand, the stepfamilies are still unusual in my country, because most of single-parent families don’t want to get another the same family.
        In conclusion, there are huge different between Unite States and Taiwan, we can learn much about family status from US and try to decrease the social problem about different family status.