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'The family is an endangered species in Britain.' Discuss  

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'The family is an endangered species in Britain.' Discuss In the most primitive societies, the family is the only social institution, which is form in nearly all known societies. It is a basic unit of social organization and plays an essential role towards the children and their generation. Almost everybody has had an experience of living in a family at some time in their lives. The fact that everybody has had experience of family life also means that families appear as natural and inevitable ways of organizing human social life1. However, as the world is getting modernized and industrialized, therefore, people's perception and views towards the family institution has changed. People became more individualistic and tend not to care others. Families are changing dramatically in the Great Britain since the Post-war "baby-boom". They are becoming 'an endangered species' as a result from the decline in the popularity of marriage,...

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