Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.
We've never been your typical family. We've moved a lot.