Feminist perspectives on the family



Feminist is the purpose of the family is to reinforce the dominant position of men within a patriarchal society. Feminism has altered the perception of what a wife might expect from a marriage. Women are now more wiling to consider alternatives to raising children within the nuclear family, which is partly due to the impact of feminism.
Femenists have focused on the contribution of domestic labour (housework and childcare), to capitalist economies. Work is unpaid but has great value for capitalist economies. Capitalism exploits women and men benefit from this exploitation.
Women's domestic labour and sexual sevices help to maintain the present workforce's physical and emotional fitness. Women's domestic labour by hiring women as cleaners, nannies and cooks. This enables the wealthy of both sexe to pursue careers outside the home.
Some femenists suggest that the nuclear family may be useful to capitalism, it is provodies an emotionally supportive retreat for male workers. However, men may attempt to make up for their lack of power ,control in the workplace by exerting control within the family. But this can be negative consequences for some females ( domestic violence)