Analysis of American Family

    本文讨论的是对美国家庭的分析与探索，此篇为范文供大家参考学习。家庭对任何家庭中的每个孩子的影响是由任何人组成的，越来越多的人认识到家庭教育在某种程度上对孩子的发展是必不可少的，现在，绝大多数人都在探索与家庭有关的几个问题，以便以后能对子女进行更成功的家庭教育，这是一种趋势。相关的家庭问题主要涉及过去如何界定家庭、如何描述家庭、这些年来我们对家庭的看法如何演变以及其他类似的问题。必须探讨上述问题的原因是，我们对家庭的传统看法受到质疑，因为家庭正受到单亲、离婚、产妇就业、推迟生育、成人独立生活和同性恋育儿夫妇等力量的改造和重新定义（408）。因此，以下将是我个人对美国家庭的探索，在此期间将运用一些散文和电影片段来帮助说明这一具体问题。

Increasingly significant is the family’s influence toward each and every child in whatever family as is composed of whatever people and larger and larger is the number of human beings that have realized the indispensability of family education to the development of the children in a way or another, nowadays it has been a trend for the great majority of people to explore several issues related with family so that they can afterwards carry out more successful family education to their children. The relevant family issues mainly involve how the family has been defined in the past, how it has been depicted, how our views of family have evolved in these years and other similar issue like that. The reason why the above issues have to be explored is that our traditional view of families come into question as families are being transformed and redefined by forces such as single parenting, divorce, maternal employment, delayed child-bearing, adult independent living and homosexual parenting couples (408). Therefore the following will be the exploration of American family on my own, during which some essays and movie episodes will be applied to help illustrate that specific issue.

   In the essays in Writing in the Disciplines, several abnormal families have been introduced, like the unmarried fathers, unmarried mothers and children of gay fathers as well as other unusual family relationships. We can have a fair knowledge that those children under such family background will grow up unhealthily more or less when compared with other children that come from a healthy family environment. Maybe some people will argue that the children that are brought up under an unhealthy family are not necessarily inferior to other children under normal family education due to the different situations and the different mentality of each and every child that is involved. But what is a must is that those children under the normal family education are provided with all the preconditions that can be provided to those children from unhealthy family relationships.

Personally speaking, I have a friend who is my classmate from the kindergarten whose father had already passed away even from the moment I met her. And during my acquaintance with her, she is quiet all the time in that she is a little self-abased due to her being poor and her being born into a single-parent family and being looked down upon by some of the classmates. As a friend of her, she has always told me that how she wanted herself can get father’s care and love and how she would like to tell others that she also has father the same as them. Fortunately, she is rather hard-working and she does quite well in the academic study so that she has gradually won back the confidence and the support and popularity among her classmates as well in the end. And from this experience, I hope that all the children can own a happy childhood and can all be nurtured under love from both father and mother.  

   Moreover, the details of the changing American family have in the meanwhile been depicted in the essays in Writing in the Disciplines through the division of various stages: the rise and decline of the traditional family: the heyday of the traditional family; family diversity in the 1960s and 1970s; families in the 1980s and 1990s: the backlash against family diversity; the family values agenda; the significance of family structure; the “essential father”; the hegemony of traditional family (408-448). From all these stages, we can find out that the traditional family has gradually lost the attention of human beings as is made up of a mother, a father and a certain number of children that are regarded as the crystallization of parents’ love. And the focus of the pubic has changed to the family diversity in which the family members may not be complete as in the past and the love within may not be that obvious as traditional families as well. But what makes me reassured is that all walks of the society seem to have accepted some uncommon behaviors of some people which have to a certain degree reduced human beings’ burden in a way or another, like unmarried cohabitation, divorce resulting from improperness between parents, non-marital childbearing, homosexuality and single parent family without mother or father.

Furthermore, what follows next at the list is the movie episode from “Father Knows Best”, a hit sitcom liked by people from a variety of age, in which it shows to us viewers a typical family as is composed by the father, the mother and their three children (Ed James, 1954). Such family is really a harmonious one as the father Jim Anderson is a wise man and he can answer all the questions the children, Betty, Bud and Kathy, ask and at the same time give them feasible suggestions as for how to act for a specific matter. In addition, he, the main pillar of the whole family’s financial support, keep on working and fighting in the society with might and main to earn enough to survive his family members so that he himself can be competent as the breadwinner with all the family members feeling proud of him and standing firm behind him all the time, leading to his family’s being deprived of the concerns on financial issues and can live a happy life.

As for his wife Margaret, she is really a virtuous one and she can deal well with all the trivial issues in her household in order that her husband can work wholehearted outside and do not have to worry about the issues at home. Detailed speaking, she just stays at home and makes everything ready in order that her husband can make a living in the society for the whole household with the rear secure, no worries about anything as everything is on the right track and will be on the rails smoothly all the same as she is careful and virtuous enough to be considerate down to the most trivial detail of all the issues that happen within. It seems that it has been one of her responsibilities to be instantly waiting on hand and foot of all the compositions in her family due to the womanly concern and gentleness that is born within her blood: tender all the family members, cherish the children, handle all the housework, attend to daily necessities and so on. Maybe we can simply describe those kind-hearted and good-natured wives as the strong backing or shield of their husbands no matter what happens, an old saying having it that “there is always a great woman behind every successful man” which perfectly describes those mighty women and that can be especially considered as an indispensable prerequisite for a happy life of the whole family.

Such harmonious relationship within the household can also be justified by what has been described in the movie episode “Leave it to Beaver” as well in that in this episode, the family is one with four people in which father and mother respect each other and they teach their children voluntarily and happily so that their two children know to protect each other even though they may sometimes argue with one another on a certain matter (Job Connelly, Bob Mosher & Dick Conway, 1957). As far as I am concerned, this family has set up a standard of moral values for other families to refer to for the sake of the cultivation of a better family relationship.  

   And then take for example a movie episode of ‘Donna Reed’, in which a middle class family composed by the housewife Donna Stone, her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone and their two teenage children Mary and Jeff. While in this movie episode, what is distinct is that it is mainly related with the problems that this middle class family experienced in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, all the family members seeming to be in a dilemmas and they do not know how to help themselves out at the first place and their relatives will occasionally complicate their obstacles on the other hand as well (William Roberts, 1958). What this episode desires to address to the viewers is that each and every one no matter males and females have to struggle for their personal rights and freedom so that they can easily and smoothly solve their own problem through their personal efforts. And also the joint cooperation among family members is as well been emphasized in this episode, which has to be paid immediate consideration and urgent attention by those families that have disputes.

   To sum up, though the American family has really changed a lot in one way or another from 1950s to the 21^st century, what should not be changed and will never change for the best state for each and every family is that all the family members can keep love to each other and show it to them in the meantime with the parents being complete and both working together to take care of their children to the best of their ability for the best nurturing of their children. And what is more, the children in the same family have to learn that they should also be deeply attached to each other and love each other devotedly. Only in this way can the children be brought up healthily and happily so as to contribute to the development of the society sooner or later in the future.    

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