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Conclusion Belonging to a family is one bond almost everyone in the world shares, but family patterns vary from country to country and the USA is not exception. During this work, which topic was the «The American family: Past and Present», we considered the such questions as: American marriage pattern; Marriage contract and divorce; Children and bringing up; Child case system.the basis of the given information we can say that for all the changes in fertility and mortality that Americans have experienced from the colonial period until today, there has been surprisingly little change in the structure of the family until the past quarter century . Until that point, the age of marriage changed from time to time, but only a minority of women never married and births outside marriage were traditionally less than 10 percent of all births.this fundamental social institution has changed profoundly since 1980. In fact, if one were to define the most original demographic feature in the post - 1980 period in the United States, it would be the changes that were occurring in both families and households for all sections of the national population. The traditional American family has been undergoing profound transformations for all ages, all races, and all ethnic groups. Every aspect of the American family was experiencing change. These include the number of adults who marry, the number of households that are formed by married people, the number of children that are conceived, the economic role of mothers, the number of non-family households, appearing of same-sex, interracial couples , and even the importance of marriage in accounting for total births.transformations of family continue nowadays in the changing economic role of women even in dual-parent households with children, increasing number of single-parent families and high rates of children delinquency and other crimes . US government tries to solve the problems which American families face by making new laws and acts and improving child case system. In our opinion sometimes these measure can t be very effective and it s better to thing about popularization of family-life and having children. There are many ways to do so: mass media, printed media, personal example of famous people etc. This way of popularization of family culture can be more productive than legal acts and family security systems.the American family, like all families in the Western industrial countries, is now profoundly different from what it had been in the recorded past. It typically is a household with few children, with both parents working, and with mothers producing their children at ever older ages. At the same time, more adults than ever before are living alone or with unmarried companions and more women than ever before are giving birth out of wedlock. These trends have profoundly changed the American family and are unlikely to be reversed any time soon.
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