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BENITEZ PEREZ, María Elena. The family: From the traditional to the controversial. Rev Nov Pob [online]. 2017, vol.13, n.26, pp. 58-68. ISSN 1817-4078.

One of the few generalizations thoroughly accepted in the social sciences is that the family is an institution that one meets in all human societies. The family synthesizes the consistency between economic, political, social, cultural, and demographic changes that take place all over the world. Its development is not anarchical, but rather it responds to the transformations experienced by the society that it represents. Therefore, although it continues to be an institution, new types of relationships are arising between parents and children, men and women, the young and the old that lead, without a doubt, to other family models. The present article aims to debate the concept of the traditional family ―a heterosexual couple with children and with well-defined roles― in relation to other contemporary family structures that alter the parameters with which family life is understood. This article will analyze some definitions that allow us to think about the principal changes observed in society and its effect on the analytic perspective of the family as an institution, in particular marriage and cohabitation, procreation, and intergenerational filiation.

Palabras clave : Family; society; marriage; fertility; filiation.

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