How do feminist and queer interventions challenge ideas of the “nuclear family?” What do they say are the limits? What other visions do we see for the ways that families can be formed? What are your thoughts about family structure and what these interventions offer us?
In the article ” BEYOND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE:” feminist and queer interventions challenge ideas of a nuclear family by saying “nuclear family” are how families are supposed to be. I would like to say nuclear families do mirror other conflicts that people are facing in this country for example ” Millions of people are without health care, decent housing, or enough to eat….While many in the LGBT community call for legal recognition of same-sex marriage, many others – heterosexual and/or LGBT – are shaping for themselves the relationships, unions, and informal kinship systems that validate and support their daily lives, the lives they are actually living, regardless of what direction the current ideological winds might be blowing.” I believe that not only do the LGBTQ also faces the issues nuclear families do but on top of that also have to face just to be accepted. I believe that there should be no specific ways to structure a “family” i believe each individual should have their own way in which makes them happy and be confident that it will work for them without having to follow these specific structures society has made us believe should be “normal”
