> Serious question, is there a requirement for the nuclear family? The answer depends on where you are. It's nowhere as strict as "if you have a child outside

> Serious question, is there a requirement for the nuclear family? The answer depends on where you are. It's nowhere as strict as "if you have a child outside a nuclear family, you go to jail". But there may be all sorts of softer pressures in place. Now, I don't think having such pressures is necessarily bad in all places. It becomes bad when it's a "one solution fits all" approach, and the pressure is applied even in situations where dissolving a traditional nuclear family would be in the participants' (especially the children's) best interests. Putting myself in the shoes of black folks, I can certainly see how certain conservative initiatives cross that line.