cont'd ...

You asked about an example - try the United States
of America for one such example - where
the variant family patterns are
formally recognised by such official agencies as the
Bureau of the Census, the state and federal courts, the
Internal Revenue Service and government welfare
departments. In the US variant family forms have
simply come to be taken for granted. Where family
is defined as a relatively permanent group of
related people, living together and sharing responsibility
for the offspring. It looks like this is here to stay
as a permanent part of human society. Of the millions
of households in the US three-quarters contain different
variants of one kind or another.

As the social and economic factors that affect all
institutions continue to change, the family unit will
undoubtedly respond with further adaptations - that is
a fact of life.

I see the American society in moral and social decline so I now understand why! Relationships mean less and no longer for life, so the Western society is in decline.

Dear Josephus,

Actually you're wrong.
Relationships mean just as much if not more and are for life
except they are no longer restricted by the
narrow traditions of the past.

That is why a leading Gay activist in Sydney recently addmitted that Gay relationships have an average lifespan of five years.

Dear Josephus,

People are entitled to a variety of opinions
and to express them. However the sweeping
generalisation that you quote is just that -
a sweeping generalisation. It does not allow
for individual differences.

Lexi,
Please read what the marriage vows state, and marriage's intended purpose. Note 73% of heterosexual marriages last a lifetime.