Summary #5



Summary #5

Introduction

What is the article about?

The article “State of Our Unions: Marriage Promotion and the Contested Power of Heterosexuality” by Melanie Heath is about state's interventions, to promote heterosexual marriages in white, middle class families. These are dominant part of the society, and this is the reason that major policies of the state is to promote social and cultural traditions of heterosexual families, as compare to the growing trend of homosexual relations and single families. This article investigates how state policies affect the perceptions of citizens and their decisions about family, marriage, and relationships. According to McMurray and Clendon ...