by Kate Johns

Created on: April 07, 2008

This topic actually is two debates in one. I'm pretty sure I could make it three or four debates if you really want me to. No, don't be ridiculous the destruction of the extended family has not contributed to climate change.

I must have been asleep for years now, because I totally missed this climate change thing. Are we talking about global warming that has supposedly happened all over the world, and is destroying the world's icecaps? If global warming is taking place all over the world, then when will it hit where I live? I have lived in the chilly Northeast for my entire life, and we still have winter and we still don't have spring. We launch right from six months of winter to summer, have two months of fall and then we are back to freezing.

So when this global climate change thing happens, let me know so I can stop freezing six months a year.

No, destruction of the extended family certainly has not contributed to climate change. Al Gore has been running around much like Henny Penny did by saying we should all stop using electricity, gas, and go back to existing like early cavemen, and live in caves. Even cavemen set fires, okay so are we to blame them too for causing global warming?

The extended family was never destroyed either. This is what I mean by having several debates in one here. The extended family has been moving away from each other for many years now due to the fact that parents had to find a way to make a living. Therefore, millions of people have been moving for many years away from Mom and Dad in search of a making a sustainable living.

The extended family lived together in one home or a two family home for many years when immigrants from other countries such as Poland, England and Germany came to the United States to find a better way of life. Many families tried to bring their entire families with them, but couldn't afford to bring the entire clan with them. Besides, some were just too old to make the long journey to the Promised Land.

Families came to live in America and even Canada and many lived in one home in the city they chose. They lived with Mom and Dad and Uncles and Aunts and then Nieces and Nephews came along. The extended family was broken apart during the 1950's and 1960's when the members of the family moved away from their parents and their city life to the suburbs for a better way of life than even their immigrant parents could have imagined.

Then over time when factory jobs in the Northeast in the 1970's started to dry up, families

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