Modern Family

In the Fifties and sixties there was a concrete portrayal of the perfect family, a domestic stay at home wife, a hard working father and two obedient and polite children. As the years goes by, the media slowly begins to adjust to a more realistic view of the family. Especially with such a high divorce rate, interracial marriages and other things that have jut recently been more mainstream. I think the portrayal in modern family expresses that not only has the media changed, in what we can actually show on television, and that american standards have changed. It's not that desirable now to have a stay at home parent when the economy is so bad. And now the power and authority of the family comes more or less from the mother and father, or even the kids. We have almost eliminated the nuclear family completely. But somehow most of the values of the old fifties family feels the same. We all try to get along with each other (we try at least) and we try to support our families through one or more incomes and we all try to have some sort of bonding time, though not so much at the table anymore. I like that this sort of change is happening in the media. Because as a society we are changing so fast, i hope the media can keep up. But with shows like modern family i feel like we are definitely going in the right direction.