Perfect Family

When you heard “Perfect Family” what comes first to your mind? Some people think that having a perfect family should composed of a Father, a mother and two children at least one sex each. It is the most common people assume about being a perfect family. If you have three kids it is not considered as perfect family? Even though we are eleven in our family (1 Father, 1 Mother and 9 siblings) I consider it a perfect family as long as we love and help every one of us. When people knew that we are a big family they think that our parents didn't plan it well. They thought that our parents cannot make us go to a decent school. But they are wrong about it, our parents made their full effort to send us all to private school and we are all raised well. People who thought our parents cannot make it are now envious of having a big family. I’m so blessed that I am part of this perfect family. 

I found the article entitled “The Perfect Family Is a Myth” by Meredith F. Small. It interests me to read this article because I wonder how the author classifies a perfect family.

According to the article, there is a 4,600-year-old mass grave in Germany which has thirteen bodies. There is a couple who hug two children which the DNA analysis confirms it is a family. So far it is the oldest evidence of a nuclear family.  But the nine bodies left are not connected to the family. In which the ideas of a perfect family are thin. 

Nowadays people now have family groups which it become an extended family. In some culture especially on Western countries women have several husbands to think that when a woman is in pregnancy period had sex with different man. It means that it also possible that this child could have a two father. This thought of a perfect family is just a mere myth for others.

“We don’t always form nuclear families in the ideal way, but we do make families of a different order all the time, because it’s human nature to be together.” As the author trying to say, the thirteen bodies in the German grave are there not because they are a family, but they are connected in some way, either economically or emotionally, and that’s what peoples really do.

Even there are ups and downs, as long as the family is together that is the most precious thing that a person can live with it. For me my family is a perfect that I can really enjoy my life. As time goes by I will also have a family which I also want a big one that makes us enjoy more.