Why is the Traditional Family not Trending?
Define trend. A trend is the "general direction in which something is developing or changing," quote Oxford Languages. Trends are always appearing, changing, disappearing, and perhaps reappearing decades down the road. From crimped hair to mustache tattoos on index fingers to TikTok dances, there are hundreds that come to mind. I'm barely nineteen years old and I've seen several come and go. But how do trends catch on? One person wears their baseball cap backward, and all of a sudden, every boy on the block's doing it--and eventually, every single boy that has a baseball cap. It may be found foolish one day, but then it's stylish the next. Trends don't revolve around only physical appearances. Subjects can trend too--meaning how much they are being talked about. A trending subject right now in 2020 is the conversation on the evergrowing global mental health crisis. Not only the conversation is trending, but also the number of people suffering from mental i...
