@KWarnock1,
I think you are looking in the wrong place. There are other traditional family dynamics, directly involving sociology, that are easier to write about:
- family dinner (grace, stories, exchange of how day went, sharing, etc)
- backyard sports with siblings and neighbours children
- riding a bicycle around the neighbourhood with friends (in big cities, the roads are generally too dangerous to make this viable)
- camping with the family (where lessons are taught)
- only one parent working (so much more social contact, usually with the mother)
- children required to do chores (parents are doing everything for them now)
- parents are more protective now ie. helicopter parents (children don't learn risk taking, don't learn how to fend for themselves, problem solve less, etc, which increases anxiety etc)
- parents barely teach manners anymore
Seriously, there is so much that you can write about, from a sociology point of view.