Then do you really love them, or you just feel sort-of obligated to pretend like you do? Family I don't like I don't visit. Why would I?
I do but they still grate on me real quick. That's fairly common, I would think.
Point being there's nothing magical about family where it has to be some enshrined institution and held up as the ultimate barometer of a society's health. Looking into a wrongdoer's family background is bullshit. All families are crackers in their own ways.
I'm a little fed up with talk about Family Values, as if my family's values are the same as someone else's. It's a salesman's phrase that tries to put a noble veneer on someone's agenda. I'm not much for agendas or salesmen.
Aside: A few years ago all these stickers started appearing on cars. Did you get these awful things? It would say My Family and then there'd be cartoon stickers of a dad, mom, however many kids, a cat, a dog, etc. They were everywhere. I was so satisfied to see one at last that said "I don't give a fuck who's in your family."
