What is a family? Issue 8 Home Page

How I See a Family Stella Tupinamba from Brazil Stella Tupinamba writes about the closeness of families in her country. Photo: S. Peters Family is where you can find your best and closest friends. Members of a family take care of each other.   Family is where you can find your best and closest friends. Members of a family take care of each other. They are always ready to help even if they have to change their personal plans. Parents change their own plans all the time to stay with their children when the children need them. Sometimes they give up their dreams to realize the dreams of their kids. Families don't have to be necessarily a father, a mother and kids. Today we have different kinds of families. We have single parents, stepfathers or stepmothers, half brothers and sisters, or families without kids. What is important is if they support and love each other before anything else. It's the way we see a family in Brazil. My grandmother say that the family must support our members even when they make mistakes. More views on the family: The Notion of Family | What Family Means to Me What Constitutes a Family? | A Family Means Love Return to: What is a family? | Issue 8 | Home Page  TOPICS Online Magazine - ©1997-2008 - Sandy and Thomas Peters - topics mag@yahoo.com