Of course there are so many variations...I mean not to offend....Just curious what u think about when u hear "typical American family"
2006-10-16 15:15:10 · 9 answers · asked by happy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Step mom or Dad mutiple race brothers and sisters grandparents who live with the family or who the family lives with
Granparents working in thier 80 90's to support kids still in college or grands in college
2006-10-16 15:18:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's a term that means what its user intends it to mean. If you think a person uses "typical American" in an exclusionary way, probably that's how that person uses it. I was stuck in a small town in England for several days after 9/11 with some other people who couldn't get home from vacation. All strangers to each other, we went around together, helped each other with phones & money machines & airlines. We were typical Americans. Two naturalized citizens from Portugal, a nice white lady from Georgia, a Jewish professor of psychology, etc.
2016-05-22 07:54:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too bad If i do oofend you but this is the internet and I do have a right to my 2 cents worth.
Typical in my mind refers to a popular social affiliation coupled with a certain political correctness and applied to a shakey faith system.
American refers to a line drawn in some sand years ago
and........
Family is where the question becomes interesting.
The only true difference between American families and say Palestinian Families or Australian families is how they see themsleves, whats typical in the context of this great World?
Typical is the idea that American Famlilies even exist.
Let me summarize........." A typical American family is one that exists". A non typical family is one that voices its opinion, exercises Its "god given" rights of ethnobotanical passage, creative "terrorism" and a cash free society.
2006-10-16 15:37:58 · answer #3 · answered by SETH 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Divorced parents, three kids that live with mom during the week and stay with dad every other weekend. At least one parent has remarried, oftentimes to a person the children and/or ex-spouse absolutely detest. Mom is stressed, Dad is stressed, and the children are out of control brats.
2006-10-16 15:19:45 · answer #4 · answered by Evelyn's Mommy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In my opinion, the typical family is:
Dad remarried to younger woman, 2 angry kids, one jilted, depressed and jaded ex-wife with a slew of boyfriends with weekend visitation to the kids.
Very sad. Very true.
2006-10-16 15:23:22 · answer #5 · answered by Chrissy: The Angry Typer a/k/a Mood Mole 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What is typical to me is fading away. I think it's a mom(woman) and dad( man) together in the same household, married and committed to one another. Plus kid(s) and pet(s). Complete.
2006-10-16 15:18:34 · answer #6 · answered by nada 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
divorced couples w/ children they maybe "working class", 3 to 4 children under age 15.
- or-
married but miserable in these days and time
children come around on holidays or in jail
grandparents either dead, retired, sick, or working because they are 76 and waiting for their retirement plan to start if they have one
2006-10-16 17:58:48 · answer #7 · answered by itsme 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no such thing as a typical family..there is no ozzie and harriet family....
If there is more than one person and love is included...you have a family.
2006-10-16 15:18:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Man, woman, 2.4 children.
2006-10-16 17:56:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋