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ICONIC AMERICAN FAMILY AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM. Certain problems are universal in all human societies: the need to provide for the nurturance of children, the need to provide children with adult role models of the same sex, the need for cooperation between the sexes, and the need to control sexual relations. Because these are all interrelated, it is logical that they should be dealt with in the context of a single institution, the family. Every society in the world created some form of it, and every person is or was a member of some family. It gives them an atmosphere of acceptance, intimacy, support, and trust regardless of the kind of society they were brought up in and the times they happened to live in. There are many types of families including special biological, psychological, and social linkages. Biologically we are all alike since everyone has a biological mother and father. This kind of conjugal bond with at least one child is called nuclear family. American families typically have what is called a modified extended family structure. When couples marry they are likely to form a household separate from either set of parents. Yet they maintain close ties with their families of orientation (the ones where m