Changing Roles
...ccasionally. I know that in thes families they do not switch roles very often. In one family there are four children and in the other there are two children. All of these children are in college and seem to be successful. From my knowledge, both of these families are quite functional. All three of the couples I observed are post-modern. One couple is my boyfriend and me. Many times, we share the cost of things, but sometimes he has some traditional behavior because if I pay for something, many times he will pay me back. We know that in the future we will have to share family roles because we will both have careers, just like another couple I observed. They do not have children now, but they plan to in the future. They swithch the traditional roles all the time, especially the male. He cleans and washes clothes often. Sometimes she feeds the animals. The other couple is my aunt and uncle, and they have been sharing roles for ye...