In modern day society, you see many things on the news about the perfect family, but is there really such a thing? I mean there is so many different family types that exist now. Some of these are; Nuclear family, Lone parent family, Same sex parent family, Cereal-packet family, Reconstituted family, Beanpole family, Empty nest family/ Empty shell family, Extended family, Adopting family, Fostering family, Marifocal family, Blended family, Neo-conventional family, Dual-earner family, Patriarchy family. You get the point, there a lot of different family types, are any of them perfect? What makes a perfect family? Love? Happiness? Trust? All these things do, and we can have all these things in all family types. But we can also have mistrust, hatred and sadness in all of these family types to. According to the media, the perfect family type is the cereal packet family (A family that consists of A mother, a father and one/ two children). This is the family type we see in all the cheese-string, yoghurt etcetc adverts. But say if there was domestic abuse going on in this family, then it wouldn't be perfect would it? But yet, a lone-parent family, may not be seen so kindly in the media, yet there might be so much love, happiness etcetc in this family, surely then, you can't stereotype the perfect family, due to a family type. It's the people in the family that make it a perfect family.
So in my opinion, there is no perfect family TYPE, but there are perfect INDIVIDUAL familys.
Izziiee xox
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