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A Prison of Expectation: The Family in Victorian Culture. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5388-0. Mintz, Steven. "Children, Families and the State: American Family Law in Historical Perspective." Denver University Law Review 69 (1992): 635-661. online; Mintz, Steven. "Regulating the American family." Journal of Family History14.4 (1989): 387-408.
Family values, sometimes referred to as familial values, are traditional or cultural values that pertain to the family's structure, function, roles, beliefs, attitudes, and ideals. Additionally, the concept of family values may be understood as a reflection of the degree to which familial relationships are valued within an individual's life.
The types of food served at home vary greatly and depend upon the region of the country and the family's own cultural heritage. Recent immigrants tend to eat food similar to that of their country of origin, and Americanized versions of these cultural foods, such as Chinese American cuisine or Italian American cuisine often eventually appear.
American films, including Annie Hall and Meet the Parents, have used the conflicts between WASP families and urban Jewish families for comedic effect. [ 127 ] The 1939 Broadway play Arsenic and Old Lace , later adapted into a Hollywood film released in 1944 , ridiculed the old American elite.
The growing Blaxit movement is now adding a new development to African American family structures, with more African Americans moving to Africa for cultural and economic reasons, they are marrying into traditional African customs [30] and family units.
As a result, many African Americans, as well as European Americans, have "Northern" and "Southern" branches of their families. Significant parts of African-American culture, such as music, literary forms and cuisine, have been rooted in the South, but have changed with urban northern and western influences as well.
Cultural history: the study of the family in the cultural context. Ethnography: the study of family customs. Genealogy: names of people in lines of descent. Gender history: the family in the perspective of gender. Immigration: the study of the family and nationalities. Legal history: the study of the law of the family.
In the 2022 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Asian ethnicities are reported. [4] The NCRC Asian American income is better understood when household size and cost of living is factored as many Asian American groups have larger households and disproportionally live in metropolitan areas where the cost of living ...