Debate 1 - Is the American Family in Trouble

Written for my Marriage & Intimacy Class this paper deals with a debate on whether the american family is in trouble or not due to ever changing ideals about just what a family entails. We were to read both sides of this debate out of our textbook, (authors for each side are discussed in the paper), and we were then to make an argument to supporrt each side, and finally make a further argument for where we/I stand on the issue.
The American family is an ideal that has many different aspects. Some of these ideals were at one time rules instead of the exceptions that they are toda…