America is becoming more and more individualist, as the women are gaining financial independence and equal roles in the society is one idea most propagators of the family decline concept sustain. Based on family decline arguments, in such a society, people care first about their individual activities, own interests and about themselves than they care about their family (Popenoe 4). In such a context, caring for other people becomes a secondary concern, erasing the essence of the family, considered by Hansen (14) the care giving not only to children but to other dependent and non-dependent members of the family.
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