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Article Review: Taking the Pulse of Canada’s Families
文献:以脉冲的加拿大家庭
家庭一直为加拿大社会重要的每一个个体而变化发生在近几十年显著的变化,家庭作为一种社会制度。在这种情况下当代家庭及其感知似乎发生了一些变化,唐娜McCloskey,该文章的作者“以脉冲的加拿大家庭”,试图痕迹。
作者特别关注若干主题是建立在这篇文章。特别是唐娜McCloskey试图描绘了生命的一个现代家庭进行了比较和充足的加拿大家庭与传统从过去。作者还关注家庭问题密切相关的问题,以及她的婚姻离婚视为一种负面后果分析婚姻及其带来的影响。她还分析了在你的家庭情况,关于子女与父母关系,最后,作者试图预测未来的加拿大家庭,或加拿大的家属,因为,加拿大的一点就变得清晰了传统家庭不能保持绝对不变、新类型的家庭可能会出现。
事实上,它应该注意的是所有的主题提出密切相关,这就是为什么它彼此分开他们几乎是不可能的,它会更好,以批判性评估复杂。究竟什么作者说的事实是,加拿大家庭也在变化。问题是,如今一个传统家庭,通常包括父母和两个或三个孩子,是相当理想,这很难实现。同时加拿大的态度正在改变家庭了。尽管事实是大多数加拿大人同意传统的家庭观念的现实表明,这样的态度是无法实现在实践中,在真实的生活环境。问题是,不同的是,在过去,在现代社会中,认为婚姻不是一个必要条件,有一个幸福的家庭生活。原因之一是广泛传播婚前关系。
此外,问题是,婚姻是经常延期以及年龄何时加拿大人可以开始传统家庭生活是不断增长的。换句话说,加拿大人结婚后会比他们的父母和祖父母所做的。在这种情况下其他观念成为了替代一个家庭,比如友谊。
与此同时,在另一个问题出现了婚姻,离婚率高的问题,所有的家庭成员伤害,不论是心理上和经济上,社会逍遥法外。
作为一个结果,作者建议,尽管事实在家族的传统观念仍然强劲,但的情况有了显著的变化,她建议在未来它将有必要促进家庭的建立为基础的社会,她建议而不是单个的一个社会的方法,即她认为公共和国家应主要集中在关注家庭,而不是个人。
显然,作者的论证似乎很合理,很有根据的。例如,假设年迈的双亲会需要大量的注意力和儿童是绝对而已。同时,它也必须认识到社会变化和家庭真的需要所有支持部分,包括国家作者的州。另一方面,它是必要的意见开始形成家庭尽可能早的年龄为了说服人们效力的传统旧式家庭和支持,包括支持国家是必不可少的一部分,特别是在早期阶段,为了支持正常的家庭生活。以这样一种方式将有更少的晚婚姻和家庭可以变得更好和履行的职能,包括生殖。然而,作者企图阻止衰退传统家庭似乎是徒劳的,因为生命的旋律、社会变化、经济情况不能有任何影响到国家的家庭。因此,它是逻辑的假定这一理念将成为古老传统的家庭,即使是现在它是相当理想,作者同意。这就是为什么新的家庭关系可能会发展。
Family has always been important for Canadian society and for each individual but the changes that have occurred within last decades marked the changes of the family as a social institution. In such a situation the contemporary family and its perception seems to be undergoing some changes that Donna McCloskey, the author of the article “Taking the Pulse of Canada’s Families”, attempts to trace.
The author is particularly concerned about several themes the article is build around. Notably Donna McCloskey attempts to depict the life of a contemporary family and amply compares it with traditional Canadian family from the past. The author is also focused on the problem closely related to family, the problem of marriage as well as she analysis divorce as a negative consequences of a marriage and its impacts. She also analysis the situation within the family, concerning children and parents relations and finally, the author attempts to forecast the future of a Canadian family, or Canadian families since, as it becomes clear a traditional Canadian family cannot remain absolutely unchanged and new types of families may appear.
In fact, it should be noted that the author makes all the themes closely related to one another this is why it is hardly possible to separate them and it would be better to critically evaluate them in complex. Actually what the author says is the fact that Canadian family is changing. The problem is that nowadays a conventional family, which traditionally includes both parents and two or three children, is rather an ideal, which can hardly be achieved. At the same time the attitude of Canadians to family is changing too. Despite the fact that majority of Canadians agree with traditional perception of family the reality reveals that such attitude cannot be realized in practice, in real life situations. The problem is that unlike in the past, in the contemporary society, marriage is not perceived as an essential condition of a happy family life. One of the reasons is widely spread premarital relations.
Furthermore, the problem is that marriage is often postponed and the age when Canadians can start the traditional family life is constantly growing. In other words, Canadians marry later than their parents and grandparents did. In such a situation other notions are getting to be substitutes of a family, for instance friendship.
At the same time, along the late marriages another problem appears, the problem of high rate of divorces, which traumatize all members of the family, both psychologically and financially, and the society at large.
As a result the author suggests that despite the fact that traditional views on a family still remains strong but the situation has changed dramatically and she suggest that in the future it will be necessary to promote the institution of the family as a basis of the society and she suggest societal approach instead of individual one, i.e. she believes that public and state concern should be basically focused on families and not individuals.
Obviously, the author’s argumentation seems to be quite reasonable and well grounded. For instance, the assumption that aging parents will need a lot of attention as well as children is absolutely just. At the same time, it is necessary to realize that the society is changing and the family really needs support from all parts, including state as the author states. On the other hand, it is necessary to start the formation of views on family from as early age as possible in order to convince people in the effectiveness of traditional family and the support, including the support from the part of state is absolutely essential, especially on the early stages, in order to support normal family life. In such a way there will be less late marriages and families could become better and fulfil its functions, including reproductive one. However, the author’s attempts to prevent traditional families from decline seem to be in vain because the rhythm of life, societal changes, economic situation in the country cannot have any effect on the family. Consequently, it is logical to presuppose that the notion of traditional family would become archaic for even nowadays it is rather idealistic that author agrees with. This is why, new family relations would probably be developed.
Bibliography:
1. McCloskey, Donna. Taking the Pulse of Canada’s Families. Retrieved
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