Why are families so important?
                In the world today we have many things happening that effect the family. Cohabitation, Employment in mothers, living alone, household sizes getting smaller, premarital sex increase, divorce, and unwed births. Each one of these cause failure in the home and in future homes. I come from a home where both of my parents were married before having kids, they are still married and I have six siblings. The only reason I am confident, have many friends, in college, happy, respectful, healthy, married, trying to have my own kids is because of my family. My father is the one who taught me to be strong and to date and marry a man who respects me. My mother taught me to be tender, help others, find the beautiful joys in life, and that I was able to become all that I wanted to become. On the other hand my siblings taught me social skills, showed me the example of surrounding myself with good people, and gave me experience in building and helping them which brought me to helping others.What I have become in life, would never be possible without my family. Love is the greatest of all things we can learn on this earth. Everyone needs it, and wants to have it. The first place we can learn love without being used or abused is home. And if we can't find it at home, imagine how hard it will be to find it else where. If we continue to just live together, we may never have children and if we do have children we will not teach them the importance of commitment. Same thing happens with unwed births, the kids born into that family not only learn that it doesn't matter to commit but also to not put 100% into their relationships. If we continue to have both mothers and fathers working out of the home, children will be separated from parents and learn bad habits earlier on from daycare's and babysitters. No one can ever raise your child the way you would. If we continue to live alone, we not only suffer ourselves but we stop the option of having children, and if we do have child they are without a father. Same goes for premarital sex, we either use everything we can to not have children (which usually results in depression, no satisfaction, and no happiness) or we end up with a one parent household. Which usually results in someone who can barely take care of themselves let alone a child, or someone who doesn't want a child so they won't teach and love the child like they need to. With smaller household sizes we see the one spoiled kid who has a hard time finding where they fit in reality when they move out. Sometimes those children are rejected by peers and find it hard to make friends. I would not be so outgoing and willing to talk to others if I didn't have six siblings I was always trying to keep up with. Divorce is obvious that it takes a tole on both the parents and the child/children. I'm so grateful for my family. I literally owe them my life.

A Memory....

My mother use to say to me 'you always learn something new every day'. Some how it stuck in my mind that when I learned one new thing that was enough and my day was over. I would try hard to learn one new thing as early as I could, in order to tease my mother with the words "Oh! I just learned something new, that means my day is done, I can go back to bed." It was worth saying in order to see the smile that came on her face. 
As I have moved out of my home, attended school, and have married a wonderful man I continually think back on the truth of my mothers words. You do learn something new everyday. This has become a motto for me with school. I find myself learning MANY new things each and every day, the fun part though is I now get to call my mother and tell her one new thing I learned during that day.

Mothers can say the simplest words, but have the greatest impact on their children.