Question

The myth of family decline as the cause of social problems suggests that the family is in serious trouble primarily due to

Answer 1

Many factors could come in to play when discussing why family's are on the decline, but one has to do with couples getting divorced at a fast rate, and the decline with new generations believing its to old fashioned to be married and be with just one partner. Resulting in smaller groups of family's.

Answer 2

The answer is "Fatherless Families".

Various social pundits find that change in family designs in previous years, particularly the expansion in families without a male authority or fatherless families, is the essential driver of contemporary social problems. This case is imperfect in two regards: to start with, it regards the family as a causal operator, instead of an impression of social conditions; and secondly, it overlooks basic purposes behind family breakdown.