" Family Talk Wednesday" THE FAMILY UNIT AND ITS IMPORTANCE

The family unit – principally a man and a woman living together in harmony and peace – is and always will be the basic social organization or unit of any society.  This relationship alone provides stability in a sexual, emotional, intellectual and social way as no other can. This statement may seem prejudiced or biased against other forms of social organization, but it has proven true over hundreds and even thousands of years. Other forms of societal organization include most people remaining single or unattached, or various forms of collective living arrangements that are called free love societies, communes, kibbutz living in some cases, and others.  To the best of my knowledge, none of these have worked out on a large scale nearly as well as what is called a monogamous man-woman relationship in terms of stability and happiness for the couple, and for the society as a whole. When the families are strong, society is strong, as a rule.  When families are weak, societies begin to break down.  This is the important concept of this article. A family is a unit of two dedicated to healing, even if they do not enunciate it or even understand it fully.  It means two who are happy to be together, who want to be together, and who deeply love one another, even though it can just be friends, for example, or a parent and a child.  This is what is meant by a family in this article.