No Father? No Problem?

No Father? No Problem?
Being from a two parent home, I, myself have not had to deal with the pressures of having only one parent. On the other hand, though, there are a few of my friends that have only a father or a mother, for various reasons. I have seen through them the differences in my family to theirs. All throughout growing up, many children, like myself, grew up watching the perfect American families like the Cosby family, the Cleavers, and the Partridges. Hollywood skewed the view of many people then, and now, more than ever, they are doing it again. The traditional American family had a loving, providing father, a beautiful, sweet mother, and loving, obeying children. As a communitarian myself, I would like to see the traditional American family be brought back to just that, a tradition.
Over the past forty or so years, the American family that we have come to know is no longer the happy, hardworking Cosby family. In the early 1960s, nearly 90 percent ...