s reveal that Americans grow up in increasingly diverse families. For a trendlikely to continue in the future, and that according to some is a irreversible historical factthe family diversity is here to stay, (Schaffer 3) such attacks hurt diverse families and thechildren whose children face little ill effect from the contemporary upbringing. Many sociologists argue that Family values campaigns put single parent families unjustlysecond-rate or best (Schaffer 1). Using the same method for which they are sovehemently opposed (mass media), many conservative organizations crusade on behalf of the supposed superiority of married-couple nuclear families,brandishing all other kinds of families second-rate--or worse (Schaffer 1) Quality is much more important than gender structure, not whether a house contains aman, women, daughter, son, three goldfish, and a golden lab named Max. However wellintended and appealing, most of the claims made by family values crusaders are blatantlyfalse as well as destructive (Schaffer 1). A high conflict marriage is more damaging to a child than a divorce, yet these groups urgeparents to stay together at all costs. Results come from a Kaiser Permanete study showthat sixty-eight percent of youth highly exposed to safety threats lived in two parenthomes (Shaffer 2). If the youth was to be separated from such problems, then they have abetter chance for success. This assault endangers kids by promoting parental conflict,destruction, and fraud (Schaffer 2). If the accusations were merited in hard data, then their rhetoric deserves much attention.However, right now, little evidence points either way. The data they base their crusadeson is inconclusive, as this sociologist said. As a sociologist, I can attest there is absolutely no consensus among social scientists onfamily values, on the superiority of the heterosexual nuclear family, or on the supposedevil effects of fatherlessness. The claim that intact two-parent f...
