This was the first issue to question and threaten the traditional definition of a family that can be described as a nuclear family. A nuclear family includes two married parents of the opposite sex and their biological children living under the same roof. However, in today’s society, the term “nuclear family” can represent different types of definitions of a family. A nuclear family can signify families of single, non-married, same sex, foster and mixed parents. Even though Mary Jo Bane, Associate director of the Center for Research in Women at Wellesley and author of “Here to Stay: American Families in the Twentieth Century, claims the definition of family has not changed, I think, because of the acceptance of interracial marriages, LBGT parental rights, single parent rights, and foster families, that the definition of family should be a group of people that share a mutual love, trust and respect for…