Love and Family

Persuasive Essay # 102222

Child, Youth Issues > Family Issues
Psychology > Social
Sociology

Love and Family

This paper argues that the value of love within a family has significantly diminished.

1,320 words () | 6 sources | MLA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the mechanics and politics of making love and making babies have been distanced from the meaning of making families. The author points out that, in today's society, filled with less sexual consequences due to birth control, the focus has switched from love to pleasure; whereas, sex used to be considered an act of love and was done as a means of reproduction. The paper relates that society seems to be based on secular individualism, worshiping money and power without any spirituality. The author underscores that dating, which began as a way to find a potential spouse under parental supervision, has become a way to look for pleasure rather than for love. The paper concludes that, when society starts taking human life and well-being as the priority over anything else, love will come naturally.

From the Paper:

"Lynch expresses the question of why women can determine they are not ready for maternity, but men cannot. To Lynch, it seems unfair that men cannot decide against being a father and are considered a "deadbeat dad" when they do not partake in the child's life. Women, on the other hand, can terminate a pregnancy if they do not desire to be a mother. The father would not even have to know. This expresses depersonalized communication between the people that had sexual intercourse in the first place. Love requires strong communication between couples, but that communication seems to take place less and less."

Sample of Sources Used:

Bromberg, Hillel S., "Lost Fathers: Men and Miscarriage" The Midwife Advocate Spring 1992: 96-97
Citizen Ruth. Dir. Alexander Payne. Miramax, 1996.
Grauerholz, Liz and David M Newman. Sociology of Families. Sage 2002
Hooks, Bell. All About Love: New Visions First Perennial. 2001
Lynch, Thomas. "Wombs" Bodies In Motion and at Rest W. W. Norton & Company. June 2001:61-77