Family ELL 2035

Warm Up Read the sentence and decide whether or not you agree or disagree with the statement. Afterwards, check with your group members to see if your answers and their answers match.

Agree Disagree 1. A couple should live together before marriage. 2. It’s better to get married younger. 3. The husband should earn more than the wife. 4. A single parent can raise a child. 5. When people get older they should get married.

1. A couple should live together before they get married. In the last 50 years cohabitation has increased by 900%. In million couples live together without getting married compared to 2.6 million in In the US, more than half the couples live together before marriage. A couple who hasn’t lived together face a 20% divorce rate, a couple who has lived together face a 49% divorce rate. However, an even stronger predictor of divorce is…

2. It’s better to get married younger. Couples who get married younger are more likely to get divorced. Since people are not as mature, they may make the incorrect decision when choosing a spouse and later get divorced. People with lower levels of education also increase the chances of getting divorced.

3. The husband should earn more than their wife. In only 38% of married couples do wives earn more than their husbands.

4. A single parent can raise a child. With children under 21, there is 26% who come from a single parent household. Roughly 80% of single parent households are with a single mother. 40% of babies were born to unmarried mothers in 2010, in 1960 that was only 5%.

5. When people get older they should get married. In the 1950s, 72% of all adults over the age of 18 were married, today 51% of adults are married. The median age at first marriage men: 27 women: – men: 29 women: 23 42% of marriages include a person who has been married before.

a breadwinner

my immediate family

my extended family

Evolution of the TV family i. Based on the video, what is a blended family and a dysfunctional family? What is a broken family? ii. How have TV portrayals of the family changed since the 1950s? iii. What’s the difference between a family shown in the 1960s (Leave it to Beaver) and a family shown in the 2010s (Modern Family)?

Watch the video on how families have changed over the last 60 years on TV.

a blended family

a dysfunctional family

a broken family

How have TV portrayals of the family changed since the 1950s?

What’s the difference between a family shown in the 1960s and a family shown today?

What is the definition of a family? What families look like today

Discussion i. What is the definition of family? ii. How are families different in Korea from families in the West (based on your knowledge from movies, tv shows, etc)? iii. How are families changing in Korea?