Upon families.
By abroji
@abroji (3247)
India
April 19, 2007 11:42am CST
Family is the basic unit of society. It is always better for a healthy society to have it's families intact. In such a society family memebers should keep relations based on love and understanding. I understand that the family relations in the USA and some Europian countries are very feeble and vulnarable. In India and other oriental countries the concept of family is more intact till now.
Please comeout with your opinions about the subject. Do stable families result in a better society?
What is your opinion about western and oriental family set ups?
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2 responses
@semak76 (187)
• United States
19 Apr 07
I'm here in the USA, and I'll be the first to admit that my extended family is not all that close. MY parents brother and sister and I still have regular contact. With a young son, I do see the importance of family, but not so much in the traditional sence. His family is my friends and their kids, the ones I can count on no matter what. You need to have a support group of some kind, and if family is scattered a close set of friends will do the trick just as well.
@abroji (3247)
• India
19 Apr 07
Nice to hear that you are in contact with your parental family. my discussion wis about the family in which you are the husband/wife. Especially when the kids are juniors. I said in my original posting that family is the basic unit of society. Now I say marriage is the base of a family. I was mentioning such families.
@GloomCookieLex (6073)
• United States
21 Apr 07
That makes the question pretty narrow-minded. Not all adults are married and not all married people have or want children. My family is my mother, my husband and my sister. I have no intention on ever having children and I don't see what's wrong with that. Being in the "parent" or the "child" position doesn't make her opinion any more or less valid.
I hope to never be in a "parent" position, what does that make me?
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@abroji (3247)
• India
23 Apr 07
I did not mean to upset you GloomCookieLex. Your family is perfect. It is only up to you to decide if you want children or not. But having children and rearing them suitable for the society are great things too.
The core of the discussion is the emotional bondage between a man and his wife. A long married life is only possible if there are love understanding and sacrifice. In India couples keep their obligation to their parental family, later to their children and ultimatrly to the society. Because of these obligations they carry on with the relations. But in the west, I understand that importance is given to individual conveniences and interests. Is that true?
@mdchennai (2129)
• India
21 Apr 07
Yes you are right, the families in european countries are not that closer as it is over here in asian countries. But i think it will change in few years because you can find many indians now in US. The US residents will see the knit in Indian families and i am sure that they too will love to have such family :)
