Answer to Question 1
While a majority of American households took this form for much of the 1950s, many did not. Working-class and minority communities, in particular, were more likely to find the middle-class ideal of the traditional family either out of reach or unappealing. Equally important, many husbands and wives who lived in these traditional households found them unnecessarily stifling. Since that time, we have seen the rise of a diverse array of family forms, including dual-earner, single-parent, same-sex, and single-adult homes, which now vie with breadwinnerhomemake r households for social and cultural support.
Answer to Question 2
a