“First, it is a reestablished constellation whose individuals roles (mother, father, adult, adolescent, child, infant, and so on) carry with them large significance. Second, it is bound to its community by social class (father’s occupation and income, type and location of the family home, etc.). Ideally, the family represents a ‘natural’ as well as a social collective, a self-confined society in and of itself. But in the melodrama this ideal is undercut by the family’s status within a highly structured socioeconomic milieu, and therefore, its identity as an autonomous human community is denied - the family roles are determined by the larger social community”
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