Introduction In society today there is a given “norm” of what a family should and shouldn’t be. By the very word family I am refer to a relationship that contains children. The socially accepted version of the family is that there is a mum and a dad and children, not two dads or two mothers. There is a growing number of the latter type of families and society is very split on whether these “…showed first 75 words of 2010 total…

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