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This-essay is a7710161.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %FAMILIES 771016 Families are commonly judged in terms of how well they fulfill traditional expectations regarding (1) the nature of personal relationships between members of the families, and (2) the nature of relationships between members of the families and those people outside their families. Traditions set the standards. Judgment is not attentive to the quality of time/kairos or to the personal growth/fulfillment of unique individuals---as much as it is attentive to objective measurements of time spent together, reciprocal commitments, mutual control, and exclusivity. Conformity rather than creativity, is regarded as proper. Traditions and behavior patterns which are tuned to of the least-common-denominator---become the criteria for evaluation of family life when judgment is based upon any kind of conformity---no matter how benevolent the standards of conformity may be. Personal growth and the laying of foundations for meaningful lives of affective intimate relationships occur within families motivated by love. Love is the power which facilitates openness, communication, authenticity, and security within vulnerability. Expectations of conformity of any kind occasion the use of objective and subjective technologies to promote conformity. Leaders who expect families to perform useful social functions see families as means to ends, and attempt to manipulate and control families to insure that the objectively defined ends are accomplished. Manipulative techniques undermine love and are impotent to substitute for love's guidance and motivation. When families are viewed as factories to turn out responsible well adjusted citizens---the stage is set for many tragedies in the classic Greek sense. When families are regarded as tools of the state, church, or any other authority; subjective technologies pervert human relationships in tragic ways. Families are most meaningful when within them the power of love facilitates the just fulfillment of all members' potentialities for physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual growth; and such other potentialities for humane fulfillment as they as unique individuals may embody. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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