The Family's Structure

The American family structure has changed greatly in the last 20 years, which was often average family consist of a father (working outside of home), mother (at  home taking care of  children) and children, all of them living in the suburbs. Nowadays this kind of family has became rare, but theses changes have been happened not only in the United States, you can see it also in other countries.
Other forms of the families unit have became fairly common like, two-career families, single parent families, stepfamilies...Although the employment of married woman increased the income that not bring happiness because the most of men want their wives to work out and also do all the houseworks including the children. 
Other kind of family is growing up, the single-parent families most of them (82%) headed by women. 
After high rates of divorce and remarriage, stepfamilies become common, the most of these families are consist of mother, her kids and stepfathers. All of these different kinds of families have been  increasing in numbers and each one with their own problems, not only in the United States also in Brazil.

In the last 30 years family's structures have been changing in Brazil but big changes happened in the big cities, like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. In the past, the avarage structures were the father, mother and 3 children, in the small cities and suburbs you can see it frequently, but in the big cities we can see families like in the USA, also homossexual families.

To complete this research, there is little difference in family structures between Brazil and the United States. The only significant difference is that in some cities in the U.S. have allowed official marriage with matrimonial rights between people of the same sex, but that is totally banned in Brazil.