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Jesus and the Anorexic Suicidal Supermodels     The family unit is one of the most cherished institutions of Americansociety. Its break away is one of philanthropy, to raise Americas children inaccordance with our accepted norms and various proscriptions and prescriptions.     However, rising teenage pregnancy and juvenile crime seem to indicatethat the American family is not doing this. galore(postnominal) Americans insist that a familyis capable of producing a productive citizen in every instance and believe thatonly a traditional family can do this.     So the conclusion one might draw baring in mind this paradigm is thatthe traditional one mom and one dad family needfully help as a function. Any PatRobertson-fearing Republican will tell you that Judeo-Christian ethics are thefoundation upon which the family is based, therefore to help the family wherefore notfoster these religious ideals? (And while were at it, why not make acontribution to the two billion dollar tax-free Christian Broadcasting Network?)     The manifest function here of religion is to provide people with aunifying belief that will scare kids into behaving so they do not go to Hell.The latent function is that it is a slap in the face to every Easterner who hasconducted themselves in a productive and positive manner. Many of the Christianright I am sure do not realize how offensive the notion is that Christianity isthe only trust to recognize that killing and take are bad.     What exactly are the "norms" that are so exclusive to Christianity? TheChristian world is more afflicted with crime than Singapore ever will be, bonnietake a walk through the super Catholic ghettos of Buenos Aires.     I personally believe that the break from moral traditions does not exist.The vast majority of American youth hold murder and violence to be aproscription, and so do thei r families whether they consist of two moms or twodads or one of each. for sure poverty has created a problem to compliment thestress placed on those growing up in single parent families, and perhaps here iswhere faith belongs. If people can just have something to believe in, to liftup their spirits, perhaps the dread of daily life would not seem so awesome forthose it depresses, and here I speak not only of inner cities, I speak of thedozens of people I know who have to be on prozac to have the will to wake up inthe morning, I speak of the countless multitudes of young women who purposelyvomit because they feel they have no control over their lives or because they