Diverse Families Paper

Diverse Families Paper

Diverse Families Paper

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400 words

1. Popular conceptions of the family in U.S. society are typically based on a narrow, white, middle-class image. Consequently, family types that do not conform to the image have often been perceived as deficient, abnormal, or even dangerous. How do the structures of minority families represent historical adaptations to broader social and economic conditions? Is it useful to focus on race and ethnicity as the defining features of minority families?
2. When it comes to understanding families, should we emphasize the similarities that exist across ethnoracial and religious groups, or should we emphasize the differences that give these groups their unique culture and identity? Do you think we as a society should aspire to assimilations or multiculturalism? And do you think we will ever reach a point when racial and ethnic categories are irrelevant in people’s lives?
3. Have you or someone you are close to grown up in an interfaith or interracial family? What do you see as the disadvantages? Is children’s racial and religious identity necessarily weakened in such families? What are the advantages?
4. What about gay couples? Do they function as well as heterosexual couples? Did you find some of the statistics concerning same sex couples to be surprising (i.e. that more than half of children raised with gay couples are non-white?). What are some of the problems with research on gay couples and families?

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