Family Diversity
...oming more common. Homosexual families or gay and lesbian families are becoming more acceptable in today’s society and extended families are also growing, along with co-habitation families. People, who are unable to have children themselves, can take up the option of adopting or fostering and this is looked at as another family structure in society. The nuclear family is greatly idealised by Moral conservatives as it is believed that, ‘a child without the same two parents throughout his/her upbringing is likely to be worse off than a child with two married parents. He or she has a higher chance of dying young, a greater proneness to bodily injury, lower scores in academic tests at school, poorer sociability, poorer ability to act in independently in strange situations, greater proneness to that most obvious type of selfishness, crime and so on. Without marriage and two married, adoptive or natural parents, the child is likely to be the victim of the economic and emotional difficulties faces by whoever are his carers.’ I am against the idea of the nuclear family being idealised as a single parent, step parents, gay or lesbian couples, or a couple living together but not legally married, could raise children as good as, or better then, many married natural parents. Parents who are naturally married may work all hours and not spend any time whatsoever with their own natur...