Diversity...really??

This week we have the topic of family diversity. We had the interesting discussion of whether all cultures are equally valid in producing happy and healthy families. In my opinion I feel like all cultures are not the best to create happy and healthy families. I would like to clarify here that when I say culture I do not mean race. I mean culture as in , "A system of shared beliefs, norms, behaviors, and expectations that persist over time, and prescribe social behavior and assumptions." For the sake of this blog post I will also define family purpose as the ability to produce healthy offspring. Healthy in all respects psycho, social, and biological development. I am going to take the stance that not all cultures are equally helpful in raising a family. I think we can all agree that the culture of a drug addict micro-society is unhealthy for children. Most of society believes this, that is why we have programs such as CPS in place. There is also a specific culture where adults will marry and are perfectly capable to have children, but choose not too. It is important to have an opinion, I think often we tend to have the opinion that all cultures are right. I think we need to learn and examine and find out for ourselves whether some environment are better than others.