Synthetic factors that destroy traditional families
The decay of morality in the modern society has led to many issues impacting on the family unit. Interestingly, this degradation, which has emanated from social development and evolution, has also led to the creation of new families that do not conform to the traditional definition of family. Infidelity is on the rise according to research as the principal constituents of the nuclear family, father, and mother, succumb to the increased pressures of adultery and philandering. Sociologists have tried to understand the increasingly high rate of family-related decay but other than the pressure from modernization and reduced consciousness of supporting factors such culture and religion, have come up short of answers.
Issues related to polygamy have been fluctuating for millennia influenced by the development of legal constraints and religious factors. Long ago, men would marry as many wives as their ability to care for them would allow resulting in huge families consisting of co-wives and half-brothers and half-sisters. However, the spread of Christianity and Western lifestyles through exploration and colonization forced the society to drop the practices that contravened the Bible and Western lifestyle. Therefore, the cultural forces that Western culture and religion introduced into the traditional family destroyed it and reduced the same to newer forms that conform to the civilized definition, which conforms to religious laws.
The industrialization of Britain led to a massive migration of laborers from the rural regions to the urban ones due to labor demands. These laborers had to leave their families in the rural areas in order to go earn a living in these areas. Unfortunately, the extended periods away from home eroded the emotional bond between the members of the family in the rural area and those working in the urban factories. Such economic factors have continued to undermine the definition of the modern family up to date as the roles of the family heads shift under the pressures absence from home causes (Prasad 81). The emotional burden and separation imposes tension on the family members where some result to alternative forms of respite such as adultery and alcoholism. With the adoption of such destructive alternatives, the family stands little chances of survival.
