Traditional Family

A man and woman are pushing two children on the swings in a park. They are all laughing and the children are screaming from excitement as the adults push them higher and higher. You approach one of the adults to ask how the adults and children know each other. The adult tells you that the children are their biological children. A group of people are gathered around a table in a restaurant sharing a meal. The group is involved in deep conversation and there is laughter. You approach to ask how they know each other. Someone in the group introduces the other members and tells you that they are close friends. They qualify that that the group was more like family than friends. You attend a church service where a congregation of people are gathered. …show more content…
It consists of a man and woman who marry and begin producing offspring. The man and woman would live under one roof and shared responsibilities for providing for and raising their children. Under the leadership of the parents, children were given guidance and support as they grew that helped them to become strong enough to leave the family unit. Family can have a positive influence, or a negative one, depending on if the family is dysfunctional or healthy in the way the family members relate to each other. A healthy family can be a stronghold for each member. The support of a healthy family gives each member support and strength during times of difficulty and times of celebration. Eventually these children would marry and begin producing offspring of their own. This continuation of a common bloodline means that a family can extend out many …show more content…
Survival was hard because families did not have the technologies available to them to help them clothe, feed, and protect themselves as we have today. Family members had to work the land to produce food, build suitable shelter, and produce yarn or leather for clothing. Each family member was responsible for contributing in one way or another to the expanded families’ needs for food, shelter, and protection. Members of an extended family tended to have a fierce loyalty to other members of the family as a whole, because they worked so hard together. If someone outside of the extended family hurt one of the family members, other family members would rally to defend or revenge them, even to the point of