My Belief On How A Family Should Be

In my diagnostic essay I said that family is one of my beliefs. Family gives unconditional love to one another. Unconditional love means that you don’t have to pretend or have to impress your loved ones in order for them to love you. They love you for who you are no matter how many flaws you have.

            They are trustworthy. Families are supposed to tell you the truth no matter the circumstances. No matter how terrible the truth is, they must be honest. Even if it might affect the relationship between you. I feel that if your family isn’t honest with you, then who will be?

In a family there is respect for each other, especially the parents. You respect each other’s privacy and the parents’ authority and rules. If you live with your parents, you must follow their rules and do what they say and ask.

 Families give good advice. The generation before you can help you with a problem by telling you about their experience, so you don’t make the same mistakes they did.

Last, a family should be happy and together. Despite the little arguments you might have, overall you should be happy. And always have each other’s back.

But that is just my belief and assumption of how a family should be. Because…

IN REALITY,

that is not always how it goes for some families.

There are families that are broken and very dysfunctional. I have seen families have physical fights outside in public for everyone to see in my neighborhood. These fights are over the smallest things. Some stop talking to each other. There is no respect at all for the parents. Some children curse and call their parents disrespectful names. They talk to them as if they are the adults and in charge.

  It’s sad that there are families like this.

The reason I believe that a family should always be there for each other is because that is how I was raised and what I was taught. But not everyone is raised that way.