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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
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.
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.
Everybody's family has problems.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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.
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.