Over the past decades, the family unit in its standard form has changed dramatically.
             Every generation in the past has had a seemingly subtle change in their cultural values in regards to family. Only when fifty or so years pass does the obviousness of the change in families become noticeable.
             For example, in the 1950's families were bound together by force and obligation. Nobody would dare have even considered divorce, and the 50's revolved around women and their obedience and lawfulness to their husbands.
             One noticeable facet about the effects on family change is that it is effected by what is historically happening at the time.
             In the late 1960's, when the world was filled with war and protest, freedom of speech became a virtue. Women were burning their bras and there was a world shaking women's liberation movement.
             This meant that women had the power to contribute in their marriages and even decide whether marriage or their own husband was what they truly desired!
             It is a common fact that generally women are the domain and backbone of their family. When the mother is unstable, the family turns to turmoil.
             Up until this point, the seemingly stereotypical gender roles of today were a reality of that time. Women were the homemakers, and men did as they pleased, taking charge of the family unit.
             Only in the last thirty or so years has the women's movement taken its true form, and during this time divorce has sky rocketed, and almost half of Australia's communal population either live without a father or have no father figure at all in their life.
             The generation of now that should be in their "child bearing" stages are generally deciding to either wait until they have established their career before having children (in which case by this time they are more infertile), or they are not planning on having children at all. This generation is between the 29-35 year old mark, and is re...