Lyotard : Postmodern View of Family

• The dominant ideology taught us that getting married and having children was the social norm.

  Lyotard talks about a growing mistrust in the metanarratives (the message being taught to society, such as consensus or conflict theories). Lyotard

  suggests that all knowleage is valld and people no longer believe in the

  'myth of truth'. There are no universally accepted truths anymore, such as

  'marriage is for life' and this leads to growing individualisation, where we can make our own truth.