Sex, Family, and the Culture Wars, Hardcover by Cherry, Mark J. He argues that reducing the family to a social construction is incomplete because that ignores its biological and moral bases. He describes what he believes to be the proper structure, moral authority, and social and political significance of the family, and concludes that it is the primary social, moral, and political category and that redefining it differently from marriage between husband and wife creates social, emotional, psychological, and financial costs.