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COLLAPSE OF FAMILY

What is happening to recent families? In the last quarter of the twentieth century,
there has been a serious change to the families. Generally speaking, the family in
western advanced industrial societies is in "Free Fall". The families are collapsing
in various ways for certain reasons.

First of all, the collapse of the family is due to advances in contraception and the
immense number of population preferred to stay single. The previous effects the
number of birth and the latter ended up reducing the marriage rate together with the
rising number of babies born outside marriage¡£Comparing the marital birth in 1961 and
in 1998 in the United Kingdom, you can see that the number has halved (Office for
National Statistics) which now is 38% in the UK out of all births. In the 1960s the
increase in sex outside marriage resulted in a sharp rise in the extramarital birth.
The divorcing rate has also decreased exclusively at the rate of 13.9 in 1993, which
used to be 2...

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