Article analysis

Please see attached for one are article. Use the link to for the other to answer questions
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/weekinreview/ideas-trends-legal-license-race-sex-and-forbiddenunions.html
1)What different interpretations of family and gender roles are being voiced in this information?
2)To what extent do these differing viewpoints correspond or clash with Western notions of family?