d and law definition, and "family values" nearly always refers to that particular social construct. This campaign was first created by rhetoricians on the political right who saw the traditional family unit as a sacrosanct institution that was disappearing, given the high divorce rate and other evidence:
The facts speak for themselves: Half of all marriages end in divorce. A third of all kids are born into single-parent families. Today, only a quarter of American families fit the traditional mold of two parents living together with their biological children (Buchsbaum 2).
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