Food for Thought

Allow me to provide you some food for thought.
The Family was intended to exist as a close knit unit. Why else bind yourselves together if the intent was not to be a tight group? to be a place of warmth, security, love and comfort? Marriage would be all the more ridiculous if our destiny were to remain as individuals, isolated and solitary.
If you look back just 150 years ago, the majority of families were, of necessity, close knit groups. Everyone worked together on the family farm to accomplish the requirements of life. Sometimes it became necessary for members to hire out to earn money, but such an arrangement was never ideal and always terminated as quickly as feasible. All intent was for family to be together. Lands were given as inheritance so that children would have no need of moving away. Several generations made up a single town, or parcel of land. The Family did all it could to be close (isn’t it interesting that in those early days of America, the more people you had in your home the warmer it would be in the winter?).
Now examine the world today, even your own family. Rather than drawing nearer to one another, the family has grown disparate. Rather than working together the father looks for jobs outside the home. We are now in an era where even the mother is looking for work outside the home and in a place separate from the father. Children attend school, then sports or other extracurricular activities. The Family is who we spend the least amount of time with, and as time goes by each member spends less and less time together.
So in your daily endeavors and activities, wherein is the Family?