Are Family Members more important than Friends
Is blood thicker (or heavier) than water - or, put another way, "doesblood run deeper than love'" In most cases, family members will alwaysback other family members in a dispute with mere friends or outsiders. Oneexample of how universal the sanctity of family is: the moral crime ofincest. It's an anthropologically provable fact, that the one mostuniversally observed (enforced) taboo within all of the world's knownsocieties is incest. Having sex with a member of one's nuclear family is
" And so, with that definition of "kinship," i. According to Professor Brian Schwimmer, Department of Anthropology atthe University of Manitoba, "Kinship is the most basic principle oforganizing individuals into social groups, roles, and categories. , family, it is truethat not every family member will stick up for a fellow family member whenit comes to a disagreement with an outsider - a friend or acquaintance. " Andalthough family structures "have been weakened by the dominance of themarket economy and the provision of state organized social services,"Schwimmer continues, "the nuclear family household is still the fundamentalinstitution responsible for rearing children and organizing consumption. But for the most part, though brothers and sisters may fight - literallyand figuratively - they nearly always stick up for each other when thechips are down, and when one is threatened by an outside force. er hand, having sex with the neighbor's wifeor with the teacher of one's high school daughter, while immoral, repugnantand scandalous, is not a punishable as a horrific taboo against society. Another example of blood running deeper than love (or water!): when,after several years of being divorced, mom meets a new man and marries him,the re-molded, newly-arranged family may not appeal to the daughters; theymay not only dislike their step-dad, but they may - and studies show theyoften do - think of ways harass him, and to disrupt mom's otherwise smoothnew relationship. "Blood runs deeper than love," is a generalized phrasethat holds quite a bit of truth.
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