amilies are inherentlysuperior rests exclusively on the misuse of statistics and on the most elementary socialscience sins--portraying correlations as though there were causes, ignoring mediatingfactors, and treated small, overlapping differences as gross and absolute (Schaffer 2,3) A missing father is not the apocalypse some suggest. In a Kaiser study, 44 percent oftroubled teens talk to their mother; 26 percent to fiends; and only 10 percent talk to theirfathers. A missing person, while still possibly affecting the child, has not the raved impact(Schaffer 1). Poverty and unemployment can more reliably predict who will marry,divorce, or commit or suffer domestic or social violence than can the best toned measureof values yet devised (Schaffer 3). Harping on the superiority of married biological parents and the evils of fatherlessnessinjures children and parents in a wide array of contemporary families, including those withgay or lesbian parents (Schaffer 3). These parents wanting to go back to the 1950s hold these few gems of the 1950s coalheap in their hands and wish life could be like the epitomized dreams the memories havebecome. Absent from these gems is the nagging thought of the absence of minority andblack rights, the constant fear of death, the inability of women to procure a job in maledominated jobs, and the previous pain of World War II and the great depression. Obviously the work environment changed. More women are in the workforce, both for theenjoyment of work and to support their kids. Their types of jobs have changed as theprevious barriers that kept them from contemporary male dominated jobs have beenoutlawed. Companies, due to increasing outside and inside pressure, have restructured thework environment for maximum profit, an action that is not inherently bad. Maximumprofits also comes through employee loyalty and dedication, both of which take initiativeon the employers part to provide the worker with a positive work...
