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The purpose of this paper is to identify how the concept of family has changed over time. Certainly, the notion of family has become more liberated through the ‘political, social, economic and cultural factors’ pertaining to the diversity of the modern day family. These factors are expressed through the exploration of feminism and the vast fundamental changes this movement generated for the role in which women play in society. The ideology that women belong in …

…the family as a social institution. Family transformation, and the acceptance of new types of relationships, has seen the belief that the nuclear family is more a historical statement than a present day reality, in particular the growth of single parents, defacto and homosexual relationships. The characterization of family can be best described as “family lives might be better judged by the strength of their affections than their conformity to other peoples expectations” (Epstein 1998, p. 14).