Family Life: Is it in Decline, or is it Resilient?

Original Publication Date: December 4, 2016

Over the past few decades, society and family has changed in many ways: gay marriage has become legal, there has been an increase in cohabitating couples, and divorce rates are said to have increased, along with many other new trends popping up along the way. Despite the benefits that can come with change, society always finds itself debating if said benefits are good, or if the change is more detrimental than anything. These disturbances to traditional family life are no different, and have sparked debates over whether or not family life is dissolving as we know it.