Is it a same sexed couple with children, or it a single parent raising the children alone. ... They have inspired family values crusaders to condemn careerist mothers, absent fathers, single parents, same sex marriages and unwed parents as the root cause of many of societies ills: drug abuse, poverty, juvenile crime, failure in school, out of control children. ...
The following excerpt illustrates the mother's thoughts soon after hearing the this news from her daughter: "She went over and over all the things she had done in sixteen years of her daughter's life, doubting her methods of bringing her up, doubting whether she had put the child to lie on the right side, whether she should have persisted and fed her from her breasts in spite of the gland problem that had developed." (124). ...
What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations."1 In fact, Crevecoeur summarized the history of the American family, in particular, and the American man, in general. There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ...
