RSSThe reasons for creating a family are very diverse. People satisfy their basic needs in the family – from survival, as it was in old times, to deepest emotional ties.
Family functions:
Reproductive
Educational
Economic and household
Recreational
Emotional and psychological
Sexual
Love, sympathy, support, education of children, self-realization of parental feelings, spending spare time together, meeting of all material needs, giving birth to children
- Family is a living textbook
- Family takes the person as he is
- Family is the school for love
- Family should be the place where a person is free to experience and share all sorts of emotions
Family starts when a person wants to take care of a loved one, to be responsible for him/her. In the world where we are all strangers you want to find a person who is not indifferent to you, to whom your personality and your state is important, who you can trust completely and he won’t betray you. And all this is mutual and sincere.
Registration means that people give each other obligations and rights over themselves. It is no longer “you” and “me’, but “we”. Trust cannot be complete without obligations. And, after all, we take not only the obligation to live together, but to love each other through thick and thin. Love is not achieved immediately. If a person is single, he is almost always selfish. When you become a couple, you have to think about each other, to sacrifice your interests for the sake of others, to take care and respect each other despite your shortcomings. Love is acceptance. Family is the school for love.
What’s your attitude towards:
- love match
- marriage of convenience
- divorce
- childfree
- single-parenting
- marriage of convenience
- same sex couples
- cohabitation
- decline in parental authority
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Extended family – consists of more than 2 generations (parents, children, grandparents, other relatives) living in the same household under one roof |
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Breadwinner
To live for themselves
To escape responsibility
A child is an extra burden
To be there for somebody
To stifle personality ['staɪf(ə)l]
Families are very important to all people. They give us a sense of belonging and a sense of tradition. They give us strength and purpose. The things we need most deeply in our lives – love, communication, respect and good relationship – have their beginning in the family. Families serve many functions. They provide a setting in which children can be born and reared. Families educate their members, teach them values, daily skills and common practices.
The most important job for a family is to give emotional support and security. Tenderness, warm-heartedness and respect should always be present in the family. Strong happy families spend time together, show each other affection and appreciation. The family members are committed to one another and are thoughtful of each other. When problems arise, they work together to solve them. If you share joys and sorrows it makes a family stronger.
