Today’s family values are being attacked from the inside out, regarding teenagers who are claiming to be gay or are experimenting with different sexual lifestyles. While there are hundreds more publications, books, and organizations that target lesbianism or homosexuality lifestyle, the definition of what family is, is constantly being re-defined.
What’s a family? According to the Webster dictionary family is defined as “a group of persons of common ancestry or the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children; also: any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional family [a single parent]” (Webster 452).
Because of this vague definition, many gay rights activists, woman and men in an open gay relationship are finding it difficult as well as an open door to challenge in court what a family is considered. The sway in the families’ structure started to take place in the late twentieth century when marketed media started to target the income of gay and lesbian families, with most of these publications targeted to people ages 15 to 45 years.
Same-sex marriage in the United States had been attempting to achieve legal recognition for their unions since the early 1970s. With that kind of attack in the families infrastructure, the call to redefine what a family is by homosexual and heterosexual communities has been in full force.