Are most of your values different from those passed by your family? Why?

Answer 1

Not really. Off the top of my head I can only think of a few things where I seem to differ all that much. My views on marriage (especially divorce and premarital sex), racism and sexual orientation issues are somewhat different. Mostly, I feel it's a generation thing rather than me being all that different from older family members of mine. My family fell away from the Catholic church by the late 60s and I was born a decade later so I totally missed that boat and never got the Catholic moral 'education' that everyone else in my family got.

My family never spoke about controversial issues anyway so I didn't pick much up from them. There was a slight racist vibe but it was mostly hidden because it wasn't 'polite' to talk about that stuff and their views came from a time when segregation was the norm. I was raised by a family who pretty much kept their opinions quiet and to this day I have no clue where they stand on certain issues like abortion though I can only guess they are against it because of their Catholic background. I'm the 'openminded' person in the family but I think that's only because I'm the youngest.

Answer 2

Nope. My parents are uneducated, christians (catholic), hypocriticial, thieving, militaristic, jew-hating, openly racist, control freaks, who think they're going to hell because I'm an atheist. The only thing I have in common is being a control freak, and only because they made me one.

If you have to ask why would I want to be different from them, then there's no point in explaining.


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