By Stephanie Coontz | September 1, 2007 Print people’s w ay of life. 3. Music has played a very significant role in the history of the country. Many families, particularly those in rural regions, are forced to use polluted non-potable water. As such, the family performs several important functions. In less than a generation life in Zimbabwe has gone from being a success story to one of grinding poverty for many of the population. A functional understanding of the family thus stresses the ways in which the family as a social institution helps make society possible. First, the family is the primary unit for socializing children. family away from traditional patterns to new ones generated by the expansion of education, health care, employment, and migration. Traditional Shona concepts on family life and how systems planned on the basis of these concepts effectively contained the population growth of Shona communities. In our guide, you can read up on the opportunities and challenges of living in this beautiful city, from its services and facilities, to its safety and security issues. It ranges from folk music to pop and rock. Scroll To Top The Family Revolution The last century has seen a transformation of marriage and family life. variety of areas, such as the allocation of public spending to family programs. gender roles, and caretaking are subject to family life and local culture. The judiciary must endeavour to secure for vulnerable children and disempowered women their small but life-sustaining legal entitlements. Urban primary schools teach in English. traditional Muslim family, values comprise the aspects of strong rel ationship, m oral integrity, eco nomic needs, socialization of its children, etc. But to address new challenges, argues Stephanie Coontz, we can’t delude ourselves into thinking there ever was a Golden Age for couples and families. Mutambirwa J. PIP: The author examines the religious and cultural beliefs of the Shona population of Africa and their effects on the society's family planning attitudes. Concern about these trends has created particular anxiety about possible effects on young children and, in turn, a resurgence of interest in how family care, especially inputs of parental time, affects child outcomes (see Ginther and Pollak, 2004, on the effect of family structure on children’s educational outcomes). Rural primary schools teach students in their local native language, typically in Shona or Ndebele, then transition to English by Grade 3. In certain remote areas of the country, they are obliged to travel great distances in order to gain access to water that is fit to drink. Life in Zimbabwe offers adventure, variety, culture and diversity, still having a relatively low cost of living. The music scene of Zimbabwe is rich and varied. For this reason, family policy needs to be at the forefront of every nation-state’s agenda. Zimbabwe's education system mandates seven years of primary school, encompassing Grades 1 to 7. Zimbabwe’s education system is still rooted in Britis h cultural dominance system which devalues the indigenous . Performance Arts in Zimbabwe . Zimbabwe’s supply of water insofar as that water can be said to be safe and drinkable is insufficient to meet the needs of the population.. Some of the traditional instruments used to produce the folk music of the …