CRI386H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Copyright Collective, Nuclear Family, Heteronormativity
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Conserative theorists make claim that the family is the backbone of society, if family gets in trouble then society falls to pieces. Specifically heteronormative nuclear family 2 generation family of parents & Pro family policy anti single parent, anti gay marriage, anti common law relationship. If society begins to deviate from this picture of heteronormative nuclear family society. The family research council right wing lobby group from washington dc will fall apart upon god"s wrath. People who seem themselves as progressive nothing wrong with being pro family, but this is just a very narrow idea of family . We should be pro family (financial supports & benefits that support families) but in widest range of versions of family. Earlier radical progressives wanted to challenge concept of family more than conservative views of the family itself. The very concept of family seen as problematic.
