emselves or drown, and a cell where consumerism was embraced. Every family had to buy a house, and then nice things to put in the house, and then even more nice things when they had children. The Nuclear family was a reflection of the social climate of the 1950¡s and is therefore no longer relevant fifty years later.
             In answer to the obvious question, it is unknown why the phrase 'nuclear family¡ came into being. Many theories have been offered, ranging from the model of the family being like the nuclear model of the atom, with the parents a constant force surrounded by their ever-revolving children, to William J. Durrant¡s personal view that ¡§The family is the nucleus of civilization¡. (www.vix.com/men/family/quotes.html). Certainly, the family was the nucleus of consumerist 1950¡s society, however was it the child-rearing paradise that many people believe?
             (NEXT SLIDE) Perhaps the best example of the Nuclear Family is everyone¡s favourite cartoon family, the Simpsons. The Simpson family relies on father Homer as the breadwinner, ironically working at the local NUCLEAR power plant, mother Marge as the homemaker and Bart, Lisa and Maggie as the 2.5 children. However, the Simpsons are hardly the model family, Homer is a drunk, Marge a compulsive gambler, Lisa a social outcast with few friends at school, and Bart the habitual trouble-maker. ¡§The Nuclear family is a hotbed of violence and depravity¡(www.vix.com/men/family/quotes.html). In the modern world of today is it even conceivable that this charade of stability is dominant? Increasing divorce rates, second-wave feminism, and a more tolerant approach to same-sex marriages, have destroyed any last vestiges of the nuclear family that remained after the influential sixties, seven
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