Nuclear Family Research Paper

A nuclear family is described as a dad, a mom, two children, a dog, and live in the suburbs. My family includes myself, my dad, my mom, and brother. We live in the suburbs so we are a nuclear family but I believe most families are different than mine. I think that when you have a family that is not a nuclear family you can be more opened to different experiences which is a good thing. For example, my best friend’s dad died when she was a baby so she never knew her biological father. Instead she had a stepfather who had other kids to his ex-wife so she has stepsiblings. Also her mom and stepfather had children together so she has halfsiblings too. She has had many different experiences growing up than I did. She has learned a lot of things that I will never experience because my family is a nuclear family. The myth of the nuclear family is just a harmless cliché because families now do not always include a mom and a dad, families have more or less than two kids, most people have more than one pet, and people live in different places depending on their jobs. Nowadays, families come in all types including divorced parents, single parents, …show more content…
Families today have all different amounts of children. Some married couples never have children because they don’t want to. Other families may have five or more children. In Rereading America, it says “Christian movement is using biblical authority to promote prolific childbearing – eight or ten or twelve children per family” (Introduction 18). This shows that families can have more than two children. Some families may not be able to have children or there is a risk of having kids so they adopt. Others don’t always want children so they choose abortion. Abortion usually happens when the parents aren’t married yet, are too young, or are just not ready yet. Abortions never happened in nuclear families. They always kept the children even if they already had two