In chapter one, the authors define what it means to be a family, what a post-modern family looks like today, and how families function as a system. Throughout the reading, I found several things that were interesting and relevant to my family. For instance, like many families, my family has assigned rules and strategies for specific members. The customary rule is that the men in the household take out the trash, while it is expected for the women to prepare meals and straighten up. However, the metarule is that the men should cook, and the women should still clean, during cook outs and outside gatherings. Other rules and strategies of members in my family are also indirect or covert. For instance, everyone in my family knows that my grandma
