-The biggest expression of morals and values in the society is the family, but I will have to doubt about this... The typical nuclear family composed by a mom, dad, and maybe from two to four child, they love each other, the mom stays at home cooking and the dad works in order to make his family have a good level of life is getting old and it is hard to find. The family that goes to church no matter if Catholic or Protestant every Sunday. For many years the Western Societies (Like Mexico) considered this way of life the correct and the only way to achieve the values and morals.
-Groups like the Republican Party, the Conservationist UK party or the National Action Party protected this. As the only way of having a healthy society full of moralists; feminists, single moms, working moms, stay-home-dads, homosexuals, divorced couples, were considered as dangers to the high values and the opposite way of the Christian way of life.
-Not until the hippie movements and feminist & sexual revolution in the 70's changed society from the typical "WASP" family (White Anglo-Saxon protestant). Important figures like Gloria Steinem or Hugh Hefner started to doubt the reality of the moralist families calling them hypocrite and leaving the sexism in a worshipped position in society because women weren't part of the labour force.
-It is a discussed in Sociology and Anthropology the affirmation that: "The nucleus of society is the family". The most liberals will say that this is totally FALSE because families are stereotyped and the modern society requires and new type of "family" while the most conservationist will say this is 100% TRUE, the values and way of behaving in the society is learnt in the family.
-Since the before-mentioned "rebel decade" of the 70's the media started to portray "the typical american family in a parody mood". Some examples could be the Brady bunch, a typical american family but actually all the daughters are from a previous marriage of the mother and the sons are from the dead wife of the father.
-The most famous example is The Simpsons a typical "WASP" family that have a big hose, a dog, two cars and live as the mom, dad, and children but if you see a little deep you will find that is a dysfunctional family.
-But the most new and prominent example of the "Anti-nuclear family" media movement that comes to my mind is "The new normal" a gay couple that hires a surrogate mother to have a children. While the villain of the story is the Republican grandma of the surrogate divorced mother.
-My personal opinion about the nuclear family is that I think it has both positive points and negative ones:
NEGATIVE:
- Sexism, because it is thought that the man is the one that has to work while the woman has to stay at home cooking and cleaning.
- Discrimination against "uncommon" families like divorced, single moms, stay-home-dads, single children, interfaith couples, interracial couples, gay couples, I think if someone wants to have children no matter how he or she have the right to have them without being married.
POSITIVE:
- Protection of the values and morals that should govern us like respect, tolerance, responsibility, working, etc.
- The love that is given by a family couldn't be compared with anything.
MEXICAN FAMILY
-The typical and conservationist Mexican family is the one where the father goes to work probably to the farm or even with a professional title as a doctor, lawyer or engineer in order to give his family everything needed. While the mother stays at home cooking, cleaning and taking care of everything that their children could need, managing the money and maybe if she also has a professional title giving advices to her husband. The go to church every single Sunday, the eating time is almost sacred and they have as many kids as good wants to give them having from 8 to even 18.
