Values Of Families

We talk about values all the time and yet most of us aren’t even sure how to define values. When we talk about family values, we aren’t talking about anything specific. One family’s set of values ranges, often dramatically, from another family’s set. This is true through the world. What one person believes is a strong set of values another might take issue with. It is a rather complex subject that bears investigation. You can’t set up your own values let alone your family’s if you don’t really even know what they are to begin with.

Values do not imply making judgments on other people and their life. Rather, it has everything to with simply being the best person you can be. When we shadow another family in the cast of the ardent values we have set for ourselves and condemn them for not living up to them what other values are in play? Since when does condemnation create for good values? Love, acceptance, and peace are the values that we are all trying to get to and yet we keep getting in our own way because we hold the belief that our set is better than everyone else’s.

It is not an easy thing to disagree with someone and the way in which they live while still recognizing that their values are not wrong, just different. The decisions you make regarding your own moral compass belong to you and it’s likely that you wouldn’t respond well to someone else’s questions regarding your choice of values no matter what books or evidence you think you have backing you up.