Just a few things a family provides:
structure and stability
ability to socialize and be comfortable doing so
establishes expectations, hopes, goals
offers love and support, nurture and protection
imparts or influences values
financial support
Each of these are very important. One that I really care about has to do with creating structure and stability. Often parents think that if they give their children structure in the home, they will hate their childhood. like structure is condemning them. This is not true. Research has shown that children who do not have structure in the home desire it and children who do have it in the home thrive. It is important for a child to know when dinner time is, bed time is, family time is. They do not have adult brains. They cannot create, very well, structure for themselves, especially when they should be learning it and not creating it themselves.
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