... marriage and the biological family; the primary significance of marriage is sexual reproduction, an age old solution to survival; and gay parents pose more of a threat of nurturing homosexuality in children than straight parents do.# Reviewing the article numerous times, I was positioned between aggravation and disappointment; it is unfathomable that the author of this commentary could actually be convinced by his ... or an unwanted birth.# And despite the fact that homosexual couples can still procreate through such means as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization, many gay c...

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... concern since earlier times during the 1500s. Payne (2015) states that, "Women didn't regard birth control as a top priority because of the high child and infant mortality rates that cut children's lives short due to diseases" such as the "bubonic plague" and "pneumonia" that were left untreated (Introduction, para. 1). Payne (2015) states that, "As a result of these untreated diseases, "30% of ... England's children ended up dying before age 15", which prompted women during these times to have as many children as they could in hopes of having a greater amount of children who would surv...

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... group characterised by common residence, economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults". Murdock was a functionalist therefore suggestively did not consider other alternatives to what a family could be, to me his definition of family is ... socialisation and culture, sexual to bring husband and wife together and reproductive to provide members for society, also for the functionalist point of view that a family was ...

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