Part one of term paper
"The Western culture defines the family as a husband, wife and children" (Henslin 308). It is my opinion that this structure or definition is sadly becoming a standard of the past. I believe that the US family is in serious trouble. In addition, I feel that the only way to ever regain the strength this nation once had is to have a return t ...

Part two of term paper
... wife, and children, has slowly begun to become units of single parents. "In these single parent family units, have tripled since the 1970's where as the two parent families have decreased by 250,000. Two primary reasons…the high divorce rate and an increase in unwed mothers" (Henslin 323). With the high divorce rate and unwed mothers, there seems to be a lack of stability in the family. The children of these homes only have one parental role model to draw their elements of social integrati ...