Familes And Religion
Throughout my years before college, when I went to school and actually lived at home, I never realized how important my family would be. Since I’ve moved away from home it seems like I just took them for granted. I love my family, or should I say families. My family isn’t like a traditional “Leave it to Beaver” family. To be perfectly honest we have the swagger of a Family Guy family. There’s drama, there’s ALWAYS craziness but at the end of the day we’re there for each other.
(Macfarlane, 1999)
Here’s a video of what many American’s say is a normal family.
My definition of a family isn’t your traditional dictionary definition: the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children; also : any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional family. My family is what some would call “broken” I’d consider it more like expanded. I come from a family where my parents were divorced and have now remarried. So I have double what the traditional family would have. So here’s my definition: Any group of people who will help you through your ups and downs in life and still love you at the end of the day. I love my families, all of them. My crazy Italian one, my family from the south, my family in Idaho, and my family at Phi Delta Theta.
I found it quite odd that family and religion were mixed together in one chapter. I felt like it was a big enough topic that it could have its own chapter. On the other hand, I’ve found that many families (for a lack of better word) transfer their religions on to their children. I’ve gotten my religious beliefs from my family and the culture of where I live. In the United States at least it’s starting to seem like religion is becoming less and less of a major factor in our lives (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, nd). Does the Modern American Family have enough time for Church?
We’re teaching our generation to become individuals so they have chosen not to have a religion. Not having a religion is becoming the new culture.
References
Family Guy video:
ABC News article:
Does the Modern American Family have enough time for Church?
Article about US citizens and Religion:
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