- emerging gender (sex roles - gender roles)
             - changing view of family – values
             - importance of male/female gender roles in families
             - families often seen as the backbone of society
             - sees transgenderism as a potential source of disruption of stability
             - courts are functioning to look out for Alex's best interest
             - Picture forms a function. The figure is blacked out can be seen as an invisible question mark on the child's gender
             - Individuals have lost their trust in the ability of science to give them answers
             - A more diverse range of family forms has emerged, with new values of intimacy
             and more individualistic notions of selfhood.
             -Postmodernists celebrate diversity and difference and subvert the idea of order.
             - Insist that no one should be allowed to impose on others their view of how to live family life. We should be able to live as we wish and choose our own lifestyles, as long as others are not harmed of inconvenienced. We should be free from restrictions and regulations,.
             Argue that difference and diversity are the only certain characteristics of contemporary human life. Thus, post-modern family life is inevitably a world of contrasts and oppositions. No one form of sexuality, partnership, marriage of child rearing can be judged to be superior to any other...
             - insist that no one should be allowed to impose on others their view of how to live family life. We should be able to live as we wish and choose out own lifestyle, as long as others are not harmed or inconvenienced. We should be free from restrictions and regulations.
             - Society is made up of institutions, that have to function together to make society
             work. Institutions- family, politic
             ...