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    The document discusses several types of modern families: Nuclear families consist of parents and children living independently. However, mothers still take on most childcare and housework. Small nuclear families can provide benefits but also risks like overprotectiveness. Blended families form when previously married individuals marry and combine families. They provide benefits like role models but also challenges like discipline issues. Surrogacy involves a woman carrying a child for others. It can be commercial where the surrogate is paid or altruistic without payment. Traditional surrogacy uses the surrogate's egg while gestational uses another's egg. Surrogacy raises religious and ethical debates. Composite families link multiple nuclear families through a common spouse

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    The document discusses several types of modern families: Nuclear families consist of parents and children living independently. However, mothers still take on most childcare and housework. Small nuclear families can provide benefits but also risks like overprotectiveness. Blended families form when previously married individuals marry and combine families. They provide benefits like role models but also challenges like discipline issues. Surrogacy involves a woman carrying a child for others. It can be commercial where the surrogate is paid or altruistic without payment. Traditional surrogacy uses the surrogate's egg while gestational uses another's egg. Surrogacy raises religious and ethical debates. Composite families link multiple nuclear families through a common spouse

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    The document discusses several types of modern families: Nuclear families consist of parents and children living independently. However, mothers still take on most childcare and housework. Small nuclear families can provide benefits but also risks like overprotectiveness. Blended families form when previously married individuals marry and combine families. They provide benefits like role models but also challenges like discipline issues. Surrogacy involves a woman carrying a child for others. It can be commercial where the surrogate is paid or altruistic without payment. Traditional surrogacy uses the surrogate's egg while gestational uses another's egg. Surrogacy raises religious and ethical debates. Composite families link multiple nuclear families through a common spouse

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    The document discusses several types of modern families: Nuclear families consist of parents and children living independently. However, mothers still take on most childcare and housework. Small nuclear families can provide benefits but also risks like overprotectiveness. Blended families form when previously married individuals marry and combine families. They provide benefits like role models but also challenges like discipline issues. Surrogacy involves a woman carrying a child for others. It can be commercial where the surrogate is paid or altruistic without payment. Traditional surrogacy uses the surrogate's egg while gestational uses another's egg. Surrogacy raises religious and ethical debates. Composite families link multiple nuclear families through a common spouse

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    The Changing American

    Family
    By: M,S.C
    Nuclear family
    - Family that function as an independent domestic and economic unit.
    - Indicates that even where mothers work full time, they are also responsible
    for most of the housework and child care
    - ideally regarded as egalitarian
    Advantages Disadvantages
     Better life quality for children  It prevents a child from becoming
    a well-rounded individual
     Better life quality for parents
     It makes the child a selfish
     Less pressure on family budgets
    individual
     Higher levels of education
     Sometimes, a small family makes
     Maximum level of happiness parents overprotective and
     Ecologically sustainable option excessively attentive
     It prevents the kid from learning
    the responsibility
    Blended families
    - the result of two families merging into one and living together. This is usually
    the case when a previously-married man and a previously-married woman
    decide to get married and live together with their respective children.
    Advantages Disadvantages
     Economic Advantages  Acting Out
     Happier Parents = Happier  Confusion and Jealousy
    Children
     Problems of Disciplining
     Additional Role Models
     Ill-Feelings
     More Family
     Insecurity
     Ability to Adjust
    Surrogate motherhood
    - A variety of reproductive technologies in which a woman helps a couple to
    have a child by acting as a biological surrogate, carrying an embryo to
    term
    Surrogacy arrangements are categorized as either commercial or altruistic.
    Commercial surrogacy
    - the surrogate is paid a fee plus any expenses incurred in her pregnancy
    Surrogacy arrangements are categorized as either commercial or altruistic.
    Altruistic surrogacy
    - the surrogate is paid only for expenses incurred or is not paid at all.
    Traditional surrogacy
    - the husband's sperm is implanted in the surrogate by a procedure called
    Artificial Insemination. In this case, the surrogate mother is both the genetic
    mother and the birth of the child.
    - A traditional surrogate is the baby's biological mother.

    Gestational surrogacy
    - when the intended mother can produce fertile eggs but cannot carry a
    child to birth, the intended mother's egg is removed, combined with the
    husband's or another man's sperm in a process called in Vitro Fertilization and
    implanted in the surrogate mother.
    - The surrogate then carries the baby until birth. She doesn't have any
    genetic ties to the child.
    - In the U.S., gestational surrogacy is less complex legally
    - Gestational surrogacy has become more common than a traditional
    surrogate.
    - About 750 babies are born each year using gestational surrogacy.
    The Roman Catholic Church is just one of many religious institutions that
    oppose surrogacy. It is against all forms of surrogacy, even altruistic surrogacy,
    which does not involve the payment of a fee to the surrogate. It holds that
    surrogacy violates the sanctity of marriage and the spiritual connection
    between mother, father, and child.
    Composite Families
     Composite (compound) families are aggregates of nuclear families linked
    by a common spouse.
     Multiple nuclear families linked by a common spouse
     Structured by rules that required a woman to live in her husband’s home
    after marriage
     The dynamics of the composite family is the interaction between co-wives
    must be taken into account, as well as the different behavior patterns that
    emerge when a man is husband to several women rather than just one,
    and where competition over inheritance and succession are likely.

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