At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.
Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.
Everything family does is reflection on the other people.
Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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