why do parents say family is your only friends?

Question

why do parents say family is your only friends

Answer 1

Friends come and go, but family is forever. I'm 37 years old and I no longer keep in contact with my high school or college friends except sending them Christmas letters. My family has always been there for me and stood the test of time. As you get older you will see your parents are right. Consider yourself blessed to have them.

Answer 2

parents worry about their children trusting others too much there are those friends who are there only when they need somethnig from you or when things are gong well but when you really need them they don't seem to be around
families for the most part are always there so they act as true friends more often they also know you better and have a better feel for what you are going thru because they have been around you far longer and know your personality better most of the time. Having said that the urge to have true friends outside your family is what causes us to begin growing up and learning who to trust. listen to what the family tells you about how they feel about your new friends and take that into consideration when you decide to really open up to a new friend and tell them things that you usually hold onto yourself.

Answer 3

B/c in this life you have many associates but few friends. Today people use the term "friend " loosely, they could have just met an hr. ago and they are yuor friend. To me, you have to prove yourself to be a friend...Be there with you through thick and thin, don't look down on you and if they do, they are looking down to offer you a hand to pick you up. A friend is someone that sticketh closer than a brother. They will never turn their back on you. So, if you are using the word "friend" lightly; think twice b/f u use it again.

Answer 4

What they are trying to say is that your family will always be there for you and you never know about friends. I would never tell my kids that. Sometimes family members DO let each other down, and some friends would NEVER let another friend down. It's simply not a true statement.

Answer 5

i'm extremely diverse round my kinfolk. I stay in an rather non secular kinfolk, and my mum and dad hate quite somewhat all the those that i'm friends with, and picture that each and every thing that i'm attracted to is a waste of time. i encounter it problematical to narrate to them, so many times we do not get alongside. i'm in a good number of cases quite quiet or insanely loud(reckoning on the concern) with my friends. MP: i'm listening to Golden Cage by The Whitest Boy Alive, it makes me experience calm.

Answer 6

i would say cuz they'll always be there if u need them and they prob. had lots of experiences in there lives. and that if u tell them something they will do there best to help u and tell u whats right or wat consequences might happen with anything. and ur parents will most likely be with u way more longer than ur firends so they are prob. saying that they are they are mainly ur only friends for that reason.

Answer 7

They dont know better. I do and my friends are more like family to me than my own family. Its pretty sad.

Answer 8

Cuz they'll always be there no matter what. But i dont always buy it and im a parent

Answer 9

not true, they need to get educated on some facts.

Answer 10

because parents are dorky