The families of the not too distant past were oriented along four axes. These axes were not mutually exclusive. Some overlapped, all of them enhanced each other. People got married because of social pressure and social norms the Social Dyad, to form a more efficient or synergetic economic unit the Economic Dyad, in pursuit of psychosexual fulfilment the Psychosexual Dyad, to secure a long term companionship the Companionship Dyad. Thus, we can talk about the following four axes: Social-Economic, Emotional, Utilitarian Rational, Private-Familial. To illustrate how these axes were intertwined, let us consider the Emotional one. People got married because...
the eyes of the individual, families were transformed from economic production units to emotional powerhouses. In the eyes of society, families were transformed from elements of emotional and spiritual ideology to utilitarian-rational production units.

This shift of axes and emphases led to a widening rift between men and women. The latter always accentuated the emotional side of the couple and of the family. Men always emphasized the convenience and the utility of the family. This was unbridgeable. Men acted as conservative social agents, women as revolutionaries. What is happening to the institution of the family today was, therefore, inevitable.