Changes

The serial does not show a traditional family, but instead characters rooming together, with the characters Leonard and Penny, as well as Bernadette and Howard currently the only married characters (the latter two being the only ones to actually have something akin to a traditional religious wedding, as the former two had a Vegas wedding), and of the two weddings, only Howard and Bernadette's have resulted in a pregnancy, with Howard reacting in a horrified manner and Sheldon suggesting that the rest of them get vasectomies to ensure it doesn't happen to them.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/sitcom-infantalization-and-the-death-of-america/</ref>

In addition the series sometimes mocks religion (with series creator Chuck Lorre depicting Mary Cooper, the mother of Sheldon, as an "unenlightened" Bible-believing conservative), and generally gives the assumption made since the Enlightenment that Christianity and Science are divorced from each other, ignoring that it was in fact Christianity that was the reason Science in its current form was even discovered. In many episodes, the show's writers have tended to write for Sheldon as if they were writing for a [[homosexual]] character (owing to the fact that Sheldon's portrayer, [[Jim Parsons]], is openly homosexual in real life), even though Lorre had previously officially claimed that Sheldon was assumed by the other characters to be asexual.