Devolution Of Family

The Devolution of the American Family The modern American family unit is ever-changing. The American family now includes more and more diverse people. As Natalie Angier says, “In increasing numbers, blacks marry whites, atheists marry Baptists, men marry men and women women, Democrats marry Republicans and start talk shows”. This seems to many to be a good thing. The American family is becoming more diversified and inclusive of all types of people. However, these examples of what seems to be diversity are actually destroying the American family unit. These new types of families do not work as well as the traditional mother/father families. Single and gay/lesbian parents cannot parent their children as well as a mother and a father can because
As marriage is the most basic unit of society—and the head of the family—marriage is of utmost importance to modern society. Dr. Ryan T. Anderson argues that marriage should be defined as a husband and a wife, and that those who want marriage to be redefined to include all sorts of relationships are “actually arguing for the abolishment of marriage” Anderson goes on to say that “that’s the logical conclusion of getting rid of the male/female aspect [of marriage]. That if you don't think marriage is about uniting male and female, husband and wife, mother and father, then you don't really think marriage exists”. Anderson claims that marriage has to be defined as a husband and a wife because if the complementary aspect of the gender roles in a marriage is removed, the ultimate outcome will be the abolishment of marriage
The previous studies have proven that a remarried mother and father have more negative effects than a mother and a father, so how can it be that a mother and a mother or a father and a father can parent just as well as a mother and a father? Not only have there been too few studies to prove much about homosexual parenting—“When it comes to same-sex parenting, we know very little because it's a relatively new phenomenon in human existence” (Anderson)—but the existing studies are flawed in multiple ways. Dr. George Rekers and Dr. Mark Kilgus find that “the existing studies on homosexual parenting are methodologically flawed and they should be considered no more than exploratory pilot work which suggest directions for future rigorous research studies” and that “most research has a white, middle-class bias; most studies have small sample sizes; and sampling procedures seldom meet the demands of rigorous research”. The existing studies were found to have had flaws relating to the education level of the homosexual versus the heterosexual parents: “Sixty-seven percent of the homosexual parents compared to 37% of the heterosexual mothers had post-secondary school education and a professional occupation” (Rekers). These studies are obviously flawed and should not be considered when weighing the evidence for this