Mothers Under 30

How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?In this essay, I will be examining the infiltration of conservative values into modern media, specifically within a web article format. In the New York Times' article, "For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage", the co-authors, Jason DeParle and Sabrina Tavernise, promote an attitude of anti-single motherhood, creating an atmosphere of pity and sympathy and promoting an attitude of blame and anger towards the fathers in those situations. The article creates a divide between the fathers and mothers in ex-marital relationships, painting the women as the victims, and the men as the predators, through the use of bias through omission, title, diction and finally source control.If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different
audience, how and why might it differ?The almost 'anti-single motherhood' attitude displayed in the New York Time's article, "For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage", is not a new one. The values displayed by the article's authors reflect the change in modern American values, with the modern American family shifting greatly from its nuclear predecessor. The values presented by Jason DeParle and Sabrina Tavernise reflect the value of an older generation, making this article outdated for a modern audience. Were this article written in the 1950's, the 1960's I feel that we would not see a major shift in values, instead the shift coming in the approach to the presentation of the same values. Where Jason DeParle and Sabrina Tavernise have included subtle bias, displayed through bias of omission, title, diction and source control, I would predict that the tactics utilized by their post-war counterparts would incorporate much more aggressive displays of bias, most likely via bias through photos, camera angles, titles and omission, some of these to a much greater extent than what we see in this modern article.