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Highlight and understand the mechanism of the post-war 'Traditional Family' unit.  

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This essay will highlight and understand the mechanism of the post-war 'Traditional Family' unit. It will uncover and examine the values of today's 'Modern Family', followed by a discussion on how these two very different ideals concerning the same basic principle came about. Although there is no solitary concept of the term 'family' since there is no one single model of it, the expression 'family' is engaged here for the purpose of defining the more commonly understood definition of the 'living unit', either all residing under one roof or living apart. This 'unit', the family has the common bond of blood or marriage binding them together. The 'traditional family' was as stable a unit as might have been found in 1950's Britain. And even though this is now becoming a thing of the past, there are those who would prefer to hang on to this autocratic institution. There was something to be...

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