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Alternatives to Marriage and Family: commune, cohabitation, gay parent families and single. Communes
In the nineteenth century, some thinkers believed that the family should be replaced by a more communal form of organization. An interesting example was the Oneida Community in New England (U.S.), established in the mid-nineteenth century by Humphrey Noyes. All men of the community were married to all women and it was assumed they were all parents of children in the community. The group came to include three hundred people some thirty years before dissolving.
since developed various types of communities in Western countries. In the sixties the communes emerged that advocated free sexual relations within the group and considered that the obligation to care for children must be collective. Some of these communities still exist.
The most important current example is the kibbutz communal life of Israel. A kibbutz is a community of families and individuals who cooperate in the rearing of children. Some are small (about fifty people), but others have 2000 people. Each kibbutz functions as a single household and childcare responsibilities is considered community and not the family.
At first, the kibbutz was more radical promoting communal property and the joint care of children to escape the individualistic nature of modern societies. Currently, it takes on more conventional forms, allowing, for example, that children sleep in his parents' house.
Cohabitation Cohabitation is an alternative to traditional marriage is when a couple has a sexual relationship without being married lives. This form of relationship is widespread in Western countries. There seems to be an important relationship between cohabitation and marriage. According to a study by the University of Essex, Great Britain 62% of cohabiting couples end up marrying a period of ten years separated by 30% and 8% remain cohabitation.
Cohabitation has been legalized in recent years: its members may claim a property division and a pension in case of separation.
Families with gay parents.
Today, many homosexual men and women in a stable cohabiting with their partners, some of them are married. In Spain recognizes the right to marry to gay couples since 2005.
Stay single.
Several factors have combined to increase the number of people living alone in Western societies. One is the trend towards late marriages, another is the increase in divorce rates and the other is the increasing number of older people whose partners have died.
Debate on the future of the family
- The future of the family, listen to different opinions. Some believe that the family falls apart and should be back to more traditional forms, others believe that the family is in crisis, but is changing and offering new ways and others believe that the family has always been harmful to humans
- What do these phrases mean? :
"The family is the nucleus of society modern, but was carcinogenic since the Stone Age. "(total loss)
" Marriage and family are not a casual sociological construction, the result of particular historical and economic situations, but rooted in the deepest essence of being human "(Benedict XVI)
- Do you think the family is in crisis? Why?
- What does the family of the individual and the group?
- What leads to negative consequences?
- What do you think about divorce? What explains the increase in divorces? Any positive aspects of divorce?
- What do you think the district as an alternative to family?
- What about cohabitation?
- How would you define these terms without looking at the notes: nuclear family, extended family, monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, affective individualism, matriarchy, patriarchy, single parent, cohabitation, kibbutz?
In the nineteenth century, some thinkers believed that the family should be replaced by a more communal form of organization. An interesting example was the Oneida Community in New England (U.S.), established in the mid-nineteenth century by Humphrey Noyes. All men of the community were married to all women and it was assumed they were all parents of children in the community. The group came to include three hundred people some thirty years before dissolving.
since developed various types of communities in Western countries. In the sixties the communes emerged that advocated free sexual relations within the group and considered that the obligation to care for children must be collective. Some of these communities still exist.
The most important current example is the kibbutz communal life of Israel. A kibbutz is a community of families and individuals who cooperate in the rearing of children. Some are small (about fifty people), but others have 2000 people. Each kibbutz functions as a single household and childcare responsibilities is considered community and not the family.
At first, the kibbutz was more radical promoting communal property and the joint care of children to escape the individualistic nature of modern societies. Currently, it takes on more conventional forms, allowing, for example, that children sleep in his parents' house.
Cohabitation Cohabitation is an alternative to traditional marriage is when a couple has a sexual relationship without being married lives. This form of relationship is widespread in Western countries. There seems to be an important relationship between cohabitation and marriage. According to a study by the University of Essex, Great Britain 62% of cohabiting couples end up marrying a period of ten years separated by 30% and 8% remain cohabitation.
Cohabitation has been legalized in recent years: its members may claim a property division and a pension in case of separation.
Families with gay parents.
Today, many homosexual men and women in a stable cohabiting with their partners, some of them are married. In Spain recognizes the right to marry to gay couples since 2005.
Stay single.
Several factors have combined to increase the number of people living alone in Western societies. One is the trend towards late marriages, another is the increase in divorce rates and the other is the increasing number of older people whose partners have died.
Debate on the future of the family
- The future of the family, listen to different opinions. Some believe that the family falls apart and should be back to more traditional forms, others believe that the family is in crisis, but is changing and offering new ways and others believe that the family has always been harmful to humans
- What do these phrases mean? :
"The family is the nucleus of society modern, but was carcinogenic since the Stone Age. "(total loss)
" Marriage and family are not a casual sociological construction, the result of particular historical and economic situations, but rooted in the deepest essence of being human "(Benedict XVI)
- Do you think the family is in crisis? Why?
- What does the family of the individual and the group?
- What leads to negative consequences?
- What do you think about divorce? What explains the increase in divorces? Any positive aspects of divorce?
- What do you think the district as an alternative to family?
- What about cohabitation?
- How would you define these terms without looking at the notes: nuclear family, extended family, monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, affective individualism, matriarchy, patriarchy, single parent, cohabitation, kibbutz?