SOCI 255 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Alex Kotlowitz, Heterosexuality, Nuclear Family
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In the 2002 documentary "let"s get married" alex kotlowitz declared that everyone from the government to church leaders to intellectuals are pushing marriage. This is in reference to the marriage movement in the 1990s by a coalition of religious and civil leaders. Government policies known as marriage promotion seek to reduce the rate of divorce and single parenting. Many of these policies were codified into federal law and the personal. Responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996. On the ground, marriage workshops teach about gender hierarchy to rehearse an implicit ideology of marital heterosexuality. Nation building strategies tied to the white, nuclear family have a long history on the us. Federal law and state law has shaped marriage as a form of inclusion and exclusion by determining who can marry, the rights and obligations involved in marriage and the conditions under which a marriage can end.
