Family Matters: How To Strengthen Your Family (Without Paying for Therapy or Changing Your Lives)

Recent events on the world stage have made many parents realize that there are larger problems that threaten to pull families apart. Moms and Dads want to keep their children emotionally close to them, and keep their families intact, but they don’t always need or want outside help in order to do this. Iinstead, many families are looking for simple strategies to strengthen their family ties and to learn how to turn to family first when the hard times hit.

Each chapter contains examples of how families have used the relevant strength to improve family relationships; how to evaluate if your family is using the relevant strength; how to look at your current family and your family of origin; suggestions for implementing this strength in the family; and the relevance of the methods to family strength.