AİLE YAPISINDA YAŞANAN ÇÖZÜLME VE UZUNKÖPRÜ ÖRNEĞİ.

The traditional extended family, which is common in agricultural society, has left its place to the nuclear family in industrialized societies after the Industrial Revolution. The family, the basic unit of society, has been experiencing a new crisis since the 1950s: disintegration. With the disintegration of the nuclear family, the family began to dissolve. Broken families have been created by the increase in divorce rates. These families are structured around a single parent, usually consisting of mother and child. Single-parent broken families are also single-parent families. While the cause of the single parent family has been divorces since the 1950s, illegitimate births have become the main cause since the 1970s. This situation causes even more destructive effects on the family structure. While there is separation of parents in divorce, there is a problem of paternity in case of illegitimate birth. Legal regulations, facilitation of adoption and widespread use of surrogate mothers have led to a significant increase in single father families among single-parent families in recent years.In short, family structures that are very different from each other, which are divided into many types, and which are united in an unformed partnership with parents of two opposite sexes, are encountered. Turkish society has also been having difficulties in recent years in resisting the disintegration seen in the family structure. In this study, the disintegration in the family structure is analyzed for the five larger geographical units in which Uzunköprü takes part of. The dissolution in the family structure was carried out by analyzing the change experienced between 2014 and 2021. The findings show that families are in the process of disintegration at all five geographical levels, from Uzunköprü at the district level to the whole of Turkey at the country level. While extended families and nuclear families are decreasing, there is a significant increase in single-parent families and nonfamily households. In single-parent families, there is a dramatic increase especially in singlefather families. All these findings show that the disintegration process in the family in Turkish society coincides with the developed Western societies. It can be concluded that there is an urgent need for policies to strengthen the family so that the dissolved family structure, which has become a social problem in Western societies, does not deepen in Turkish society. In addition, the interest in this subject in the national literature is extremely limited and more original research is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]