By: Author Unknown

1. Communicates and listens: the family shares, listens and responds.
2. Affirms and supports one another: parents affirm children and establish positive moods.
3. Teaches respect for others.
4. Develops a sense of trust: husband and wife trust each other deeply. Children earn trust.
5. Has a sense of play-humor: play isn’t equated with spending money.
6. Shares responsibilities: responsibilities are geared to capability. It teaches consequences as a result of irresponsibility.
7. Has a sense of right and wrong: parents communicate this to children, each becomes responsible for moral behavior.
8. Has a sense of tradition linked both to past and future. There is honor for elders and babies are welcomed.
9. Has a balance of interaction among members.
10. Has strong religious orientation: daily emphasis in God and His impact on life.
11. Respects the privacy of one another.
12. Each values service to other members.
13. Values table-time: sense of “meeting” for meals.
14. Shares leisure time: does not allow sports, etc. to “fragmentize” family.
15. Admits to and seeks help with problems: seeks to develop problem solving techniques.