Providing for the family: a home, food, and a sense of security; the Father is an important factor in the up bringing of a family. Unfortunately, many families do not have the luxury of a nuclear family. They must survive on their perseverance, along with a little bit of luck along the way. .
In our textbook, Moser and Waters accurately depict the essentials of family values. The one essay that seems to support my own set of values is the one entitled Reserve Marriage for Heterosexuals. I feel that a family has nothing to gain by allowing homosexuals to adopt children and start their own families. The essay depicts that children that are raised without a Mother and a Father seem to develop in a skewed, scarred, or retarded way. I agree with this point of the essay because there is no way a child can cope with the fact that he or she has no Mother or Father. The book also cites that adoption agencies are now discouraging single parents to adopt children, leaning more and more towards the traditional, nuclear family. .
Our textbook represents a wide variety of different assumptions on the qualities of a family. The assumption that I do not find to be legitimate is depicted in the essay Marriage is a Fundamental Right. The essay declares that the marriage of two homosexual partners should be legalized. I believe that this would threaten the social identity of our culture, and presumably bring on more troubles than benefits. The only reasonable explanation for this reaction, is the fact that I came from a very traditional background. I have never had to experience the fact of knowing I can not do something because of "tradition." I hope in the coming years I will change my views on certain issues when I learn to understand them better. .
With my Father growing up in a small town in West Virginia, his family used the current day template of raising a family. Finding someone who you could marry, having ten children, and living the rest of your life with them.