That's just one view. I believe God did not "design" a family unit at all. People create families, and many families through history have not fit this particular model. Families have changed form over time. Many societies have been polygamous. Some societies have practiced communal child-rearing and have not featured nuclear families at all. When the British encountered the Seneca tribe in what is now upstate New York, they found people living not in nuclear family units, but in large communal clans, in households headed by women. Men went off to hunt while women tended the fields and grew the crops. Quaker missionaries were appalled that the Indians were living in what they considered un-Christian groups rather than nuclear families. They saw the nuclear family as "God's design," and they set out to force the Seneca to change how they lived. They were also upset that the Seneca women did the farming, which they believed was men's work according to God's will, and they were appalled that the women had so much independence and even power in the tribe. They set out to force women out of field work, to eliminate communal farming and communal households, to get the Seneca men to farm and to live in nuclear family units on small plots of land, and to get the men to be the "heads" of their new nuclear families. They also tried to get the Seneca to convert to Chritianity. Over time, the European push to change the Seneca to be like the Europeans largely succeeded, though many of the Seneca resisted the white people's ways for a long time.
Thinking that there is only one way to live that is God's "design" can lead people into not recognizing the many possibilities for living on God's earth. This narrow way of thinking can lead people to force what they regard as God's will on other people. It's a dangerous way to think, in my view, because it can be disrespectful of people who may be different.
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