Problem: Consider your socialization growing up. Do you recognize your family in any of the changes discussed in the Pew Center study, below, and in other readings?
Parenting in America: The American family today
Discuss the trends you recognize in your personal experience but make use of the sociological imagination to discuss rather than editorializing. Reflect on assumptions you had while growing up about any category in the Pew Study: single parents, children in poverty, etc. This paper is about seeing yourself sociologically. Here is a source that can help you write reflectively.