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International Review of Social History

Vol. 42, SUPPLEMENT 5: The Rise and Decline of the male Breadwinner Family? (1997), pp. 1-23 (23 pages)

Published By: Cambridge University Press

https://www. jstor .org/stable/44735319

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The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? An Overview of the Debate on JSTOR

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Angélique Janssens, The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? An Overview of the Debate, International Review of Social History, Vol. 42, SUPPLEMENT 5: The Rise and Decline of the male Breadwinner Family? (1997), pp. 1-23

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HEY THERE!!!!
AMRITPREET KAUR HERE , WELCOME TO MY PADLET ....

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Nuclear family or atomic family is considered as a small family including two parents and their kids living in a single house , unlike big or joint families where set of parents live with their family members eventually covering large dimensions.

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The selection of my books might be strange to you , but it is a perfect set of children based books with "FAMILY" as a central theme. After reading these books i came to a conclusion that there is no such vast difference among the ideas reflected in all of them but still every book is unique from one another.

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So, after reading these books based on the theme of families,  I think that in contemporary-era books, the reinforcement of nuclear ideals is not prioritized. In all of the books, a thing which is illustrated is "FAMILIES", and that too of different kinds, who like doing different things, with different kinds of people in it. Books like, "Families, families, families" and "Who's in My Family" are representing the family in a very beautiful, unique, and simple way. The authors of these books described the diversity in families all around the globe. A family is a group of people living together who love and care for each other. The parents of the family might be a mom and a dad, or two mums or two dads. Or it might be a single mother or father taking care of the young family members. Other than parents, the grandparents, other relatives, elder siblings, or an aunt or uncle might also be the guardian for the young ones. The way how parents, no matter which type, make children by adopting them nowadays is also mentioned funnily, in which a small girl says that her mum used to make a phone call and order babies online in a home already full of kids.

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celebrates the dreams, acceptance, and love that parents have for their children . . . now and forever! From brave and bold to creative and clever, Emily Winfield Martin's rhythmic rhyme expresses all the loving things that parents think of when they look at their children.

Also, now the children are free too, to become or do what they really want to without any kind of pressure, restrictions, or high expectations from family or parents. Parents do not expect their child to become this and that and go at such posts or positions both professionally and socially, where if they might have been given full facilities would not be able to prove themselves a successor. They encourage their children to be restriction-free and live their life full of freedom. All they do is just wonder what their young ones would grow up into, extrovert, introvert, smart, adventurous, brave, on anything else, but they would not bother what the final state would be, the only thing that matters to them is happiness and love among them.

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The book namely," Love Makes a Family", shows that no matter what the family type is, nuclear or large, the main thing which should exist in a family is love and care, spending time together, and being there for one another in difficulties and also celebrating and cheering together during triumphs or happy moments.

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Families now even include a single parent, but when two single parents find a perfect match for their partner, who can understand them well, cooperate with them, and help each other in tough times, collaborate and starts growing together. So, giving enforcement to an ideal nuclear family having a mother and a father with 2 kids, ideally, a boy and a girl is not the motive of today's children's literature. People now have full freedom to detach from a place or specific person with which or who living is not going properly.

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In the past times, people use to marry and continue their living and generation growth in the same culture. But in the past few decades, we can easily see diversification in families, including people from different cultures, religions, and beliefs. The thing which bounds them is love, affection, and care. The only matter is that now people have increased their boundaries of freedom. They do what they prefer, and live a happy life ignoring all the restrictions which they or their ancestors might have faced earlier. In the given books, this is reflected by children in the same family talking about their physical traits matching with one of their family members. "MOVING TOWARDS GREATER DIVERSITY PERHAPS SUGGESTS THAT FAMILIES ARE FLEXIBLE AND RESILIENT AND CAN MANAGE AND EASILY ORGANIZE IN ALL SORTS OR KINDS OF WAYS."

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To summarize, the family-based children's books that I took were not focused on reinforcing nuclear family ideals. The main motive of publishing these books according to me was to make the readers more familiar with the word "FAMILIES" and to make them know the current status of families, and how diverse they are now.