The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 9, 1958 Page: 4 of 24
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4 OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
Every parish priest knows
that something has happened to the
family. He has had the frequent ex-
perience of being called to the rectory
parlor or a parishioner’s home to meet
one or both parties of a shattered
marriage which began with the prom-
ise of neverending bliss. So grave has
the problem become that large par-
ishes may employ lay counsellors in
the future to assist the priests in mar-
riage work. The increasing demand
for counselling service by married
people points to a deep-rooted illness
that must be analyzed in terms of
change in the family as an institution
and of change in the other institutions
which affect the family.
A study of changes in family pat-
terns brought about by the move of
the family from the farm to the city
offers insights into our problem. We
have always had families living in
cities but this is the first time in our
history that the majority of people
dwell in cities. One of the first effects
of the city on the family is to di-
minish its size. Children put the fam-
ily at an economic disadvantage. An-
other far-reaching change is the loss
of the family’s function as a self-sus-
taining economic unit. In other cul-
tures, the family was the producer,
distributor and consumer in economic
life; a man married not just to have
a companion for himself and a mother
for his children but to have a partner
in a lifelong work-operation.
Daily toil has long since ceased
to be a source of unity. Modern in-
dustry does not bargain with the fam-
ily as a unit but with the members
as individuals. The corporation not
only bargains separately for this labor
but it removes the work from the
home. Also it occupies the day for
the head of the household and, to an
increasing degree, for his wife, who
should be the heart of the home, at a
place removed from the family’s sur-
roundings.
It is not new in history for
women to work outside the home.
What is new is our attitude toward
this change; what once was con-
sidered an exception or an emergency
is now a socially approved aspect of
American family life.
In the area of family life, the
conflicts of Catholics with the society
they live in are sharply accentuated.
Catholics date and marry at the same
age as other Americans, but cannot
“protect” themselves against fertility,
through birth control, as their Pro-
testant neighbors can. With commun-
ity support for Catholic values lack-
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judge, and administrator within the
family and the builder of empires
without. The mother was the obedi-
ent, loving homemaker who rocked
the cradle of the child who was to
rule the world. With democracy,
world affairs demanded woman’s par*
ticipation in social and political life,
so that mother had to balance house-
hold duties with extra-familial obli-
gations. A measure of financial inde-
pendence has enabled the wife
gradually to command greater influ-
ence in family decisions. The wife has
also become the social pacesetter, en-
couraging her husband to pursue the
symbols of success. He, in turn, by
giving up his parental rights, has been
relegated to the status of a bread-
winner and nothing else. Jiggs and
Dagwood are caricatures of living
realities.
For centuries in the Western
world there was no question where
authority resided in the family; now
there is no question that the hus-
band’s authority has been under-
mined. In a poll of 186 Catholic col-
lege seniors only 52% thought the
husband should be the family head.
Another study of Catholic husbands
and wives made the distinction be-
tween wives being subordinate to
husbands and the husbands being
head of the house, with 92% agreeing
to the first and 38% agreeing to the
latter.
Modern democratic rule of the
household runs counter to the Pauline
exhortation read at the nuptial Mass:
“Let wives be subject to their hus-
bands.” Where we have role con-
fusion, we have chaos; Junior will en-
joy equal status through default of
his elders. This does not mean that
roles are inflexible. Husband and wife
can preserve their essential roles
while making the adaptations which
our changing society presses upon us.
Family stability in other cultures
has been built on many ties. Besides
the family as a self-sufficient eco-
nomic unit, there was custom, which
bound people together until death in
a monogamous marriage. Today our
laws reflect the majority view that a
maximum of freedom should be al-
lowed to dissatisfied couples. This
permissiveness toward divorce has a
fragmenting effect upon the family.
The patriarchal system that once
bound families of a clan into a single
family and accepted complete respon-
sibility for all the lesser units, has
yielded to the conjugal, small-family
type that depends on outside agencies
to supplement its limited emotional
and material resources.
The present day family is based
on affection and common interests.
Affectional love demands a continual
sharing and constant communication
through some means other than eco-
nomic ones. As an adequate basis for
lifelong union, romantic love, or the
physical attraction of marriage, has
been oversold in our sense-dominated
culture. The affectional marriage puts
tremendous demands on the emotional
life of the spouses and results in a
high rate of anxiety and neurosis.
Love has been too often conceived as
a grasping rather than a giving. Ac-
tually this is a failure to love, or a
deification of self. Because of these
factors—the loss of function, the
fragmentation of the family, and the
failure to understand the nature of
love—marriage manifests an increas-
ing need today for skilled marriage
counsellors. This will be part of the
answer to the marriage problem; the
other part will provided by the mar-
ried people themselves, who somehow
must find ways of maintaining and
implementing Catholic values by as-
sociations with other Catholics.
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over what families and local volun-
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previously. Social security, unem-
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measures smooth the rough edges of
an economic system that does not
make adequate provision for the ma-
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being provided for, to an overwhelm-
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rather than through the ties of re-
ciprocal and initimate human rela-
tionships. This’ represents severe
damage to the family, since self-help
is the key to the development of re-
sponsibility in the family.
ANOTHER way to study
change in the family is by analyzing
family roles, particularly those of
husband and wife. In former times,
the husband was the lawmaker.
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Francis, Dale. The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 9, 1958, newspaper, November 9, 1958; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1528529/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting St. Edward’s University.