The Comment of the Role of the Family in Society

After reading the article of the Role of the Family Society I had a general idea of American family-- people who cherish their freedom and equality very much. They are willing to be less stable and lasting of families, instead of sacrifice freedom and happiness to keep the family complete. In China, some people would do that just to give a child a complete parenting environment. But Americans have their own definition of family, "people who live together and love each other." This definition is suitable in China, too, but not much. Most families are traditional style, which contains a father, mother and a child (China is a one-child-only country by law). I admire the spirit of American pursue freedom, but at the meantime I think American pursue for themselves too much. They believe it is OK for a child to grow up with one parent, but I don't believe. One-parent growing environment can affect the child's psychological health. I had seen lots of children who had broken the law that grew up with single parent, no matter in America or China. Another notable phenomenon is that America has lots of blended family, which is very common, but it is not common in where I'm from.  In China, lots of parents would worry about step-fathers or step-mothers will not treat their children as own. They think step parents are dangerous. Americans probably do not think so, but personally I had heard of some bad stories of step parents. I don't think super pursue freedom is a safe opinion of American. They can get happiness through pursuing this concept of life, but the results of it probably won't be as positive as they think.