Evolution of Colombian families

According to a survey carried out in the main cities of Colombia, the Colombian family has had significant changes in the last 30 years, technology and marriage, the ones that have generated the most changes in this institution.

The family continues to be the most important institution for Colombians. They relate it, more than with blood ties, surnames, or economic support, with love.

1. Families still eat together. The dining room is still an important place in homes.
2. Men are required to contribute more for the parental home of what is required of women.
3. In Colombian homes the tendency is growing for everyone to help and share the kitchen chores.
4. Accept the possibility of homosexual children and to live with them, is increasingly widespread.
5. In almost the half of the homes in the country have internet.
6. Colombian couples they frequently fight over money matters.
7. The poor families are more numerous than the rich
8. But the concept of marriage is increasingly divorced of the family
9. Families are getting smaller. The average is four members (between parents and children), but the tendency of this number is to decrease.
10. The Colombians continue to cultivate emotional ties with their parents in old age; they come for them, they visit them, but they do plus the lower strata than the tall ones.
11. The children help every day more actively in the home duties. But it is an attitude common in upper classes.
12. Surprisingly, the Internet connection in strata one and two has grown considerably in the last two years.
13. Marriage is an institution increasingly characteristic of the high stratawhile in the low ones it loses validity.
14. The percentage of those who they say that getting married is out of fashion.
15. Although the infidelity in men has decreased and in women it has increasedThey are even more unfaithful than they.
16. The men love mothers-in-law more of what women want.
17. The sons of strata tall ones take longer to leave home.
18. disobedience It is the first reason for discussion between parents and children.
19. The married couples have fewer children than married couples.
20. In Colombia there is a decrease in the young population.
21. The ‘pedagogical slap‘ continues to be a widely used method in Colombian homes to reprimand or correct children.
22. Colombians who believe in Marriage is still considered an institution forever.
23. The tendency to forgiving infidelities is quite high in both men as in women.
24. Although the majority of Colombians do not agree with gay marriagedo you think that members of same-sex couples should have civil rights equal to those of heterosexual couples.

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