Doing What Works: Finding the Traditional Family
I decided to keep the same theme as Marriage, a History, doing what works. I looked at Coontz's search for finding a traditional family.
Coontz's 1st Claim
“I will argue that our recurring search for a traditional family model denies the diversity of family life, both past and present, and leads to false generalizations about the past as well as wildly exaggerated claims about the present and the future (pg 14)."
Plausible?
Yes!
Examples:
**My Boyfriend's view of a traditional family VS. My view of a traditional family.
**Diversities in Chinese Families (Pg. 211)
**Coontz's experience with teaching and her students' diverse opinions of what a traditional family is. (Pg.8)
Coontz's 2nc Claim
“If it is hard to find a satisfactory model of the traditional family, it is also hard to make global judgments about how families have changed and whether they are getting better or worse (Pg14)."
Plausible?
Yes!
Examples:
**If we cannot find a single model of a traditional family due to a variety of diversities, how can we observe the changes and judge if the changes are for the better or worse?
**Common Myth of family separation. (Pg.15)
**Lack of separation in my large family!
I decided to keep the same theme as Marriage, a History, doing what works. I looked at Coontz's search for finding a traditional family.
Coontz's 1st Claim
“I will argue that our recurring search for a traditional family model denies the diversity of family life, both past and present, and leads to false generalizations about the past as well as wildly exaggerated claims about the present and the future (pg 14)."
Plausible?
Yes!
Examples:
**My Boyfriend's view of a traditional family VS. My view of a traditional family.
**Diversities in Chinese Families (Pg. 211)
**Coontz's experience with teaching and her students' diverse opinions of what a traditional family is. (Pg.8)
Coontz's 2nc Claim
“If it is hard to find a satisfactory model of the traditional family, it is also hard to make global judgments about how families have changed and whether they are getting better or worse (Pg14)."
Plausible?
Yes!
Examples:
**If we cannot find a single model of a traditional family due to a variety of diversities, how can we observe the changes and judge if the changes are for the better or worse?
**Common Myth of family separation. (Pg.15)
**Lack of separation in my large family!