Family and Identity is about the marriage and family values in the environment for the children. “How can parents going through divorces or not (having arguments) or have lost a parent, maintain a stable environment for their children.” I disagreed with the article of Family and Identity because they made a statement, "They claim that the collapse of the traditional (heterosexual, 2 parents) family structure has eroded family values and instigated a contagion of social illnesses that threaten the moral fiber of the country." The sources are Marriage (1988) by Gregory Corso, Separating (1972) by John Updike and On Tidy Endings (1986) by Harvey Fierstein, those sources will make a statement that the traditional family structure is not eroded
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Marion and Jimmy had gone up to Arthur and Collin's house to gather the things from Collin's will, the mother was having a hard time to remember the events in her marriage with Collin because it was a good marriage until she found out that everything was a lie about her marriage. When Marion and Arthur were facing in an argument where they were giving out of their raw emotions about the opinions and love in the family. Arthur defined the family as taking care of the loved ones and work all through without being in the fight, Marion defined the family ad chaos and ruined of a loveless marriage and a gay husband has lied to her. Arthur told to Marion, " Bought and paid for outright. I suffered for it. I bled for it. I was the one who cooked his meals. I was the one who spoon-fed them. I pushed his wheelchair. I carried and bathed him. I wiped his backside and change his diapers. I breathed life into and wrestled fear out of his heart." (464) That was a marriage where the children will live in a stable environment because the parents were supposed to taking care of each other and working all through in the different situations. Where children can feel loved from and knowing what a family was like because there was a love in the marriage. Marion said, " I lied before. He was everything I ever wanted. " (464) It shows that a spouse was supposed to feel in the marriage where it leads for the happiness and love that will make a stable environment for the children to feel. “You live with someone for 16 years, you share your life, your bed, and have a child together and then you wake up one day and he tells you that to him it’s all been a lie. A lie. Try that one size. Here you are the happiest couple you know, fulfilling your every life fantasy and he tells you he’s living a lie” (462) it destroyed the expectations of marriage and the emotions
Marion and Jimmy had gone up to Arthur and Collin's house to gather the things from Collin's will, the mother was having a hard time to remember the events in her marriage with Collin because it was a good marriage until she found out that everything was a lie about her marriage. When Marion and Arthur were facing in an argument where they were giving out of their raw emotions about the opinions and love in the family. Arthur defined the family as taking care of the loved ones and work all through without being in the fight, Marion defined the family ad chaos and ruined of a loveless marriage and a gay husband has lied to her. Arthur told to Marion, " Bought and paid for outright. I suffered for it. I bled for it. I was the one who cooked his meals. I was the one who spoon-fed them. I pushed his wheelchair. I carried and bathed him. I wiped his backside and change his diapers. I breathed life into and wrestled fear out of his heart." (464) That was a marriage where the children will live in a stable environment because the parents were supposed to taking care of each other and working all through in the different situations. Where children can feel loved from and knowing what a family was like because there was a love in the marriage. Marion said, " I lied before. He was everything I ever wanted. " (464) It shows that a spouse was supposed to feel in the marriage where it leads for the happiness and love that will make a stable environment for the children to feel. “You live with someone for 16 years, you share your life, your bed, and have a child together and then you wake up one day and he tells you that to him it’s all been a lie. A lie. Try that one size. Here you are the happiest couple you know, fulfilling your every life fantasy and he tells you he’s living a lie” (462) it destroyed the expectations of marriage and the emotions