Dragonlady
Designing Woman
- Dec 1, 2012
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The American family is resisting this effort, and people like Joe is working hard to bring forth the new thinking that will expose people to many unseen things in which we have seen a great preview of over the last 30 years or more, and so here we have Joe who ignores all that is bad, and that has happened or is happening still no matter. He is like a devil himself trying to destroy or shut down peoples defense systems in order that he open the door for his ilk to sit down at the table, even if they are not welcome at the table because of their anti-family stance in which they have.
These people can't stand rejection, so they seek to break down the family in order to be accepted, and they do this even if they themselves know that they are wrong in their lives, but they can't be rejected no, and they refuse to change so they try and change others instead.
Define "the American family". In my world there are families with fathers, mothers and children, there are families with fathers, mothers, step-parents, half siblings, there are families with one parent, where kids spend time with their other parent in a joint custody arrangement, there are kids with one parent who has no contact with their other parent, and there are families with two parents of the same sex. Which of these are not "American" families?
Half of all marriages now end in divorce so there are more families which don't look like the traditional idea of a mother father and children, there are who do. When my youngest daughter was growing up, she was the only one of her friends whose parents were still married to one another. But she is a second marriage child and has two half siblings from my first marriage. My older children have a younger half-brother from their father's second marriage. My older children also have a whole other set of aunts, uncles and grandparents who are, in fact, the family of their father's second wife.
My daughter has a husband who was previously married and his son from that marriage lives with them. He is as much my grandson as my daughter's three boys, even though he is not connected to me biologically.
I was adopted so I have five brothers and sisters who are the children of my adoptive parents, as well as eight half-brothers and sisters who are my biological siblings. we are all family.
The idea that Hollywood and gays are out to destroy the "American family" is total and utter conservative bullshit since there is no one definition of the American family which fits every family out there. No one is out to destroy traditional families, but what people want is acceptance of their versions of family which are tolerated and accepted as valid.
The family, in whatever form it may be, is the basic economic unit of society and it's not going away anytime soon, regardless of how rightwing conservatives may contend that liberals are out to destroy it. How does adding to the definition of "family" diminish it or endanger it?