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2.8 Family The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. – Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809) The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. It is the building block of the human race. It is the basis. It is the microcosm of the humankind. Broadly defined, family is a fundamental social unit living together in one home in a society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children, a group of persons sharing common ancestry and united by certain convictions or common affiliation. The group of persons may typically be related by blood, as grandparents, parents, …show more content…

Good family teaches children good things – good ethics, the virtue of good work, humanity, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity and above all individual responsibility and accountability. It is the place for foundation of ethics where children first learn integrating ethics in daily life and get a handle: how to limit their wishes, how to abide by the rules, judge rights and wrongs, and consider needs of others. Though these values are largely social, communal and cultural, yet, ethics as a social contract coming to children mostly from parents, these attributes are learnt within the family. In a family, living together bonds the minds together. Minds come in contact with one another. Primarily, the family performs certain indispensable functions for its members. It provides food, cloth, shelter and security – the basic necessities of living. Of equal importance is the physical, emotional and psychological security. You do a lot to keep your family safe at home. Living together primarily under the same roof generates human friction, conversation, attachment and relation. Love and warmth of the relationship are the source of the emotional strength with which the young members move out to negotiate the complex situations and challenge of the world outside. A family is not built in a day. A good family is a good fortune that one is born in. Building up the family’s fortune needs patience like moving the earth by the needle. But losing can be as swift as a raft rushing downstream with the

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