What is the perfect Family?
Here is an experiment. What characters do you think make up the perfect family? Gather a group of people and have them create their ideal family, there is no limit on how many people there can be in the family.Is this how your family looks?
In American society, a high value is placed on family life.
Americans believe there is a special bond between parent and child,
grandparent and grandchild, and this creates a unique atmosphere,
which allows for certain behaviors and disallows for others.
For example, within a family, in the comfort of a home, one may feel free to be
more laid-back at the dinner table. One may be permitted to put their
elbows on the table, talk with one’s mouth full or watch TV while one eats.
Conversations can be held about things which would not be polite to say in
public. There is an understanding that it's alright to be yourself when
you're with family. These types of behaviors are tolerated because of the
closeness of the family atmosphere. But is this the only version or behaviors of a family?
Can a family consist of two parents of the same sex, or of different
ethnic backgrounds? Can family be made up of two parents who are
divorced, and remarried to new spouses? Can families be extended beyond
the nuclear family and have aunts, uncles, and cousins in the same house. How
and why are these families? They are not made up of a mother and father and
two children? Why is it illegal to have more than one wife or husband in most
states, and does the government have the power to determine that marriage
or a family can only be between men and women and not two partners of the same sex?
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5 comments:
I really think homosexual are completely capable to raise children my only worried about this issue is the opinion of the others and the consequencies on the children Will they be able to grew up like most of the children of their age or will they be constantly judged ?Nobody can predicts in advance whats going to happen and its i think the main problem
Those are really hard questions. I think whatever form of family exists - it should be legally allowed. This country is trying to provide its citizens with much liberty, so I think it will be justified to say that whatever kind of family you have, it should be allowed as long as it doesn't have any obvious negative effect on community itself.
Posted by Vadim Mokhnatkin
Its true that as long as its legal any kind of family can exist as this country is trying to provide its citizans with much liberty.But one negetive effext which ca ccur is that the families who come from other cuntries they have their own culture which is totally different than here.So, they try to hold that culture and tradition and also want to imply on their children.But, most of the children are not ready to accept that because they are brought up in this culture and gradly accept this one.On the other hand,the parents behave too strict with them and there is a gap between their thoughts.
I think there are no rules on how family should look like. Each person carries an ideal of how he wants his family to be; in many cases it is probably shaped by each individual experience. I think that gay people should have the right to marry. Marriage is a mutual assent of two parties and it should not reflect any religion provisions in it. What ever happened to the government that said equal rights to individuals ?
Nina Dekel
The ideal family would be mom, dad, son, and daughter. But to me this is not the ideal family. There is no such thing as an ideal family. Everyone’s family is different, and no one should judge you on your family. If you family is composed of a dad and aunt or your grandparents it shouldn’t matter. There should not be a set standard for what a family should look like. The different types of structures of families work for different people. On the issue of same sex marriage, I think that it is ok for two people of the same sex to get married with one another because they are not hurting anyone. People who get married promise to love one another not the whole world. I don’t think that by two people getting married they are causing any harm. They just want to live and start a life like any other normal person would want to. Also I believe that they should also be given the right to adopt children. Some people say that same sex marriages cannot adopt children because then the children would become gay and it is not a “fit” environment for them to live in. but who is to judge on who is a “fit” parent or not. Sometimes the families that have a mother and a father are not the healthiest types of families. Sometimes those kids come out traumatized. So in reality who is to really judge who is a fit parent, and who is to judge who should get married with who? No one can. It’s your choice in the end. Claumery C
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