es at home and the man bases his identification on his paid work. Generally, the wife is to have less power than her husband does in relation to all aspects of their marriage. The second type of family, the Egalitarian Family, is described by Mintz and Mahalik as a rejection of both of these ideas (Mintz & Mahalik, 1996, 806) referring to the traditional family. Further explained, the Egalitarian Family is the husband and wife identifying with the same sphere, home and work, or identifying with the same balance between the two spheres of home and work. In this family relationship, the power amongst both the man and the woman is to be distributed evenly, and the same value is to be held upon both husband and wifes paid and unpaid work. The third type of family is the Modern Family. Mintz and Mahalik describe this type of family as representing a middle position within the marriage (Mintz & Mahalik, 1996, 806). The modern family, also known as the transitional family, is further explained by a wife who is to identify with activities both related to paid and unpaid labour, where as the husband is to relate his identification to strictly his paid work.With the explanation of these three types of families, it is easy to say that along with the types of families changing, the roles of the family have also changed. Taking a closer look at womens roles, and comparing them to mens roles, Lye said that changing family and gender role attitudes are indicative of a weakening of traditional normative constraints that used to offer the well-defined adult roles of husband-father-breadwinner and wife-mother-homemaker so that diverse range of adult roles are now acceptable and coexist." Referring to the different types of families above, Lye clearly explains that it is also possible to have many different types of family roles and expectations working together in the same familial. Lye also believes that the effects of mens and womens attitude...
