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Contemporary society generally views family as a haven
from the world, supplying absolute
fulfillment. The family is considered to encourage
"intimacy, love and trust where individuals may escape the competition of
dehumanizing forces in modern society”, and providing love and protection from
the rough and tumble industrialized world, and as a place where warmth,
tenderness and understanding can be expected from a loving mother, and
protection from the
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protection is declining as civil society faces less internal conflict combined
with increased civil rights and protection from the state. To many, the ideal of
personal or family fulfillment has replaced protection as the major role of the
family. The family now supplies what is “vitally needed but missing from other
social arrangements”.
Social conservatives often express concern over a purported decay of the family
and see this as a sign of the crumbling of contemporary society. They feel that
the family structures of the past were superior to those today and believe that
families were more stable and happier at a time when they did not have to
contend with problems such as illegitimate children and divorce. Others refute
this theory, claiming “there is no golden age of the family gleaming at us in
the far back historical past”
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