Hey liberals what do you think of the meaning of family??

Question

Is it that you guys have become distracted by other things....keeping our family together isn't quite as important, having a family to have a child isn't as important, staying true to our family isn't as important. We want it now and we want it easy and it's our RIGHT to do whatever we want....and eventually, as Family become less and less important, and our own personal happiness and fulfillment (whatever the heck that really is) and personal pleasure and desires become more important, the family will desitegrate and our purpose will be lost and there will be CHAOS.


Or is that a Libertarian philosophy???

Answer 1

Oh stop it. My family, aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, grandparents, sister, and even myself, have lived a life of a bloody soap opera but we stick together BECAUSE we're family.

But let me tell you something...

My mother married a man who was an abusive alcoholic. 17 years she lived that way, and our lives were MISERABLE. Years, she went to councelling while he refused to go. Yes, they split. But guess what... it was better that way. My sister and I breathed a sigh of relief that it was over. The living hell of our childhoods and everything that happened was finally over, instead of continued for the rest of our lives just because stupid religion prefers that people don't divorce. DIVORCE WAS BETTER.

My sister married a man who became a druggie and sold everything they owned to pay for his drugs. She came in the house one day to find her year and a half year old son crawling on the floor that was littered with little pennies and there was a 6 inch dagger on the coffee table that they had been using to cut their dope. She finally had enough of him and she left. She's now divorced.

Both of them remarried happily and both have lived much better lives for getting themselves out of that situtation.

As for me... I married a mentally abusive man who did something he called "redding out" where he'd get so angry he'd beat things up and not remember doing it after. He once told my stepdad that I ticked him off so bad for not doing the dishes that it was better to punch holes in the hallway wall than it was to punch me in my face. He tried to cut me off from my entire family. It was so bad that when his friends got in the car with us, I had to get into the back seat.

You know what? i divorced the jerk and found someone infinately better.

So you want to know what the importance of family is? My mother, my sister, my grandmother... THEY are family. We have stood together through a living hell and back.

And WE WILL NOT PUT UP WITH ABUSE JUST BECAUSE RELIGION DOESN'T LIKE DIVORCE.

You can like it or don't like it. But family... true family... doesn't hurt each other continually over the years.

If they do, its better to dump each other and move on. Everyone would be happier.

So don't you get holier than thou. You don't know the situation and religion, which was always a part of my life, which we all would have been better without its influence, has only caused harsh suffering with anyone in my family.

Btw, I just barely scratched the surface of what my whole family has been through. Our lives would make a best selling series of novels. And every single one of them, we'd all have been better off without religions influence because we NEVER would have put up with the bull we did for so long.

I don't think you religious people understand the true meaning of family. Family doesn't mean that you "put up with being treated as though you're less than human because you made an agreement to be together forever".

Answer 2

This question suffers from a number of assumptions.

1) The false assumptions that liberals care more about their own personal gain than they care about their families.

2) The false generalization inherent in #1. Liberals are a diverse group, just as conservatives are a diverse group. Yes, there probably are some liberals who don't care as much for their families as they should. However, the same obviously holds true for conservatives, or am I supposed to believe that Rupert Murdoch really really cares for his family so much more than his millions and his stranglehold on American journalism and the truthfulness therein.

What do I think of family? I think family is exceedingly important. The effects a good family has on a child are inumerable. So are the effects that an unhealthy family has on a child. Children learn either to be healthy, intellectually curious, and intelligently trusting adults or they learn to hide behind a core of addictive shame passed down from their families.

I refuse to impose my own personal definition of family on anyone, and I certainly dislike the conservative media's attempts to narrowly define family as a middle class white American leave it to beaver style family.

Furthermore, the word you are looking for is "disintegrate" (just for future reference!)

Answer 3

I guess you could call me liberal... although I believe that divided, we fail.

The problem is that you are being fed propoganda about others. NOTHING is more important to me than my family. Yeah I believe that two people who love each other can marry, and yeah I think that if they can't have kids they can adopt... what the hell is so wrong with that? Do you think that if a child grows up with two fathers or two mothers that they won't turn out right?

Answer 4

common Republican %. an environmental hellhole, made that way with the aid of an marketplace owned with the aid of extremely-conservatives, then blame democrats for having to stay there. you're an identical guy who grow to be claiming that Detroit's pollutants grow to be a consequence of Democratic mayors, particularly than an marketplace geared up with the aid of Henry Ford, American fascist.

Answer 5

This liberal girl thinks family is the most important thing in her life. My family comes first before anything else. I don't however believe that I HAVE to bestow another child onto this world, especially one I know I don't really want. So, pardon me if that offends your sensibilities.

Answer 6

Too bad you fundies think like that.

We, liberals, cherish our families so much we don't want our children sent to war that our president lied to us to get us into.

I think there are all kinds of loving family units. A union between two people who love each other should not be subject to discrimination based on gender.

The adoption of children into a loving family should not be discriminated either.

What values do you teach your children? The value of bigotry!

Answer 7

My family is the single most important thing on earth as far as I'm concerned. I'd dive in front of a speeding train if it meant the safety of my children and I'd strafe you down if I thought you threatened them.

Answer 8

You asking because you don't know?
or does only the Religious Right love it's children, not like the rest of us 6 billion inhabitants on the planet.

Thank your lord you live in the land of LIBERTY!

Answer 9

Liberals believe in the importance of social relationships and in raising children in a secure and reliable environment. Conservatives seem obsessed with bloodlines and patriarchal control rather than the good of the child. So the liberal definition of "family" is looser than the simplistic conservative, "Daddy, Mommy and babies" model. For liberals, what is important is having responsible adults around that the children can depend on for support and nurturance, regardless of their genetic relationship.

Answer 10

My family is very important to me. I live for them.