Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana
What really is a perfect family? One may think of a perfect family as a nuclear family in which father is working and mother is staying home and raising children who are obedient and in agreement with their parents. In reality this is not how many families are formed today. There are children raised with a single parent home where mother or father has been separated or divorced; there are still some extended families where children live with their grandparents and other relatives, and blended families where children live in families with step sisters or brothers from one of their parents or step parents previous marriages. There are more varieties of families today than there were many generations ago.
When you look back at your own grandparents, parents and your family, what changes do you observe from their generation to yours? Have your parents been raised the same way they raised you? Have you or will you raise your children the same way or differently? If so, how different? How do you feel about sending your children to day care centers instead of being with them? Do you think this will create less parental control and supervision later in their life? Is it necessary for working couple to have children and is this a responsible behavior? Do you think children feel neglected being sent to daycares instead of staying home with their mothers?
If you could change one thing in your family, what would you change?