Carlos Almada Chapter 1: What is a family?

4/24/2014

Identify three people (it would be best if both sexes and a variety of ages were represented). Individually, ask each person to define "What is a family " !our paper should include your sub"ect#s gender, marital status, and approximate age as well as their complete response to the $uestion. In addition to those three definitions, include your own definition. %ote& 'ost people will try to give "simple" answers. (ncourage them to give complete thoughtful answers.
There are three people that would be qualified to answer this question in a personal non atta!hed way due to the plurality of the uni"erse# $ be%un by as&in% my sister who is an adult youn%er by three years' who is sin%le and and she responded with the answer of people who share the same thin%s# When en!oura%ed to %i"e more answers with an e(planation as to what that a!tually means she repeated with )people who share the same thin%s#) A bit ambi%ious' howe"er mu!h !an be said about su!h a promisin% response# *eople who share the same ori%in' perhaps the same shared !onne!tion to the life %i"in% of the mother# Then there was my mother in the ba!&yard with my dad !uttin% the %rass behind the house# $ as&ed her the same question as soon as the ma!hine slowed down and e"entually turned off# They both loo&ed at me and then $ as&ed my mother last a%ain with the same intensity# Then she replied the union between a man and a woman as she stepped behind me# Then $ as&ed my dad and he replied a %roup of indi"iduals who are born and %row who ta&e !are of ea!h other for sur"i"al and the self impro"ement of the indi"idual as well the whole %roup of !lan# The reponse of my father !learly demonstrates the hi%hest le"el of thou%ht' howe"er if one obser"es !losely' one will see that the others are not wron%# They simply ha"e different styles of spea&in% it# +y sister belie"es that by ha"in% a shared ori%in and fa!ility of the same !onstru!ts' that may be !onsiderin% as of the same root and family# *erhaps that is not the !ase and only the way $ heard it' in any !ase my mother said that it is the union between man and woman# This also ma&es sense be!ause the it is the union between man that a woman has !hildren with him# ,nowin% this' we !an say that the final reponse of my dad is !alm and with a !ertainity a e(planation of the uni"ersal nature that e"ery mind is a part of and a representation with# We !an definitely say that the uni"ersal mind that %o"erns all thin%s in life is the same mind that ta&es its time to !reate e"ery pie!e of e(isten!e and fabri! of life# $ belie"e the nature of the family is two pron%ed be!ause its e"olutionary power !an riddled with intimate details predatin% any of what is histori!ally &nown# The responses of

my family members are testament to the binatural reality of the - points of e(isten!e' the pra!ti!al' the intelle!tual' and the mysti!al planes# .nly when we see the true nature of the binatural e(isten!e !an be understand the nature of reality#