Family Controversy

There has always been the feeling that family was the most important unit around and that it should be preserved at all costs.

While that might have been the case in the 1800s and 1900s, I is clearly not the case today.

In fact, family is not even close to being the strong unit that it once was, especially since there are so many single parent households out there.

Those family units that have managed to stay together, that is to say, not get divorced, no longer have the closeness they once had due to people's ability to move around so freely.

My family for instance, started in North Carolina and has ended up in New York, Tennessee, Michigan, South Carolina, Kentucky, as well as North Carolina.

Birthdays are not the same, Thanksgivings are not the same, and Christmas is not the same as not everyone can get together each year.

While the divorce rate has maintained a 50% level for over 10 years, those families that do not get divorced, fall apart once the parents die.  It was the parents that kept the family together and the children have no desire to maintain a strong family unit.

Wealth is another issue that separates the children of these families because if one sibling becomes wealthy, there is a good possibility that his or her wealth will not be shared with the other siblings, increasing the animosity.

However, in those families where the parents did a better job of bringing the siblings together, there is no problems with sharing the money.

WE ARE EXPERIENCING THE DEATH OF THE FAMILY UNIT