The social context surrounding Cameron and Mitchell's conversation can be understood through the social constructionist model of communication. The social constructionist communication model is based on the idea that people live in multiple social worlds. Social worlds are created with boundaries that delineate meaning for those who interact within the world. Social worlds are shaped by interactions that create what is considered appropriate and inappropriate language and behavior. Examples of different social worlds include how a teenager interacts with friends versus how a teenager behaves with grandparents: each group has a different set of standards or expectations that are created and followed. Cameron and Mitchell also belong to certain social worlds: how they interact at home with their daughter, how they interact with their gay friends, and how they interact with extended family, to name a few. According to the social constructionist model, communication is a way of creating these social worlds. Within social worlds, words have no meaning, but meaning is instead negotiated between people. Communication is something that people live and experience rather than something that people perform. No message can be received the same due to contingency and its constitutive nature. Contingencies concern the absence of certainty about how a message will be interpreted within a given event. A constitutive message refers to its multiple meanings and the power of people to create these meanings. When contingencies and constituencies are kept in mind, communication becomes a complex strategic process that can no longer be considered common sense. The social context of Cameron and Mitchell's conversation is s...... half of the document ......irth rates, Angier focuses on the “baby boom of gay parents”. More and more same-sex couples are raising children, and the children of these same-sex parents are “academically and emotionally indistinguishable” from those of heterosexual parents. These statistics support a trend toward families that differ from the nuclear family popular in the 20th century. A nuclear family is defined as a married man and woman living together, caring for their biological children. The documented quantitative trend that shows the change in the American family structure will create generations of young people who will consider it the new social norm. Mitchell understands the situation in the park through a mindset that was more common ten years ago, while Cameron represents a new mindset that is starting to address the invisible ideologies that society has unquestionably followed in the past..