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This is one of over 150 articles focused on
building
family relationships and
preventing divorce.
This
introduction describes the Web site's purpose and
the best ways to use its resources. Each article
is part of a
mosaic
of ideas, so the more you read, the more sense they'll
all make.
These articles augment, vs. replace, other
professional help. The "/" in re/marriage
and re/divorce notes that it may be a
stepparent's first union. "Co-parents" means both
bioparents, or any of the
related stepparents and bioparents co-managing a
multi-home nuclear stepfamily.
Before continuing, reflect: why are you reading this -
what do you
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All articles
in this nonprofit Web site are
based on the idea that any child, adult, relationship, or family, can be judged to
be somewhere between "wholistically healthy" and "wholistically
unhealthy." Wholistic (usually spelled
holistic)
means (mental +
+ emotional + physical).
Health means
"Filling local and long-term
and
functioning and growing at natural human potential."
Each person and
observer can form an opinion about "wholistic health," because criteria and
perceptions vary. This nonprofit site ranks
also relationships and families as ranging between low-nurturance ("dysfunctional") and
high-nurturance ("functional"). High
means "consistently filling all
family members'
and long-term
primary needs well enough."
Premises
Adults raising minor kids share responsibility for...
-
(a)
and (b) filling
their own and their
dependent kids' developmental and
family-adjustment needs well enough, and
for...
-
motivating each
other family member - specially minor kids - to assume responsibility for filling their own needs as an adult.
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The
functionality
of any family or
other group is directly proportional to the personal wholistic health of
its leader/s. That in turn is proportional to the
nurturance level (harmony and effectiveness) of their
If this is true, then co-parents' working
at true
from psychological
(
will significantly improve their home's and extended family's
wholistic health and nurturance level over time.
What's your opinion? Do you have a
way of measuring the wholistic health of a person, a relationship, and a
family? Generally, the more primary (spiritual + emotional + physical + mental)
are met locally and over
time, the higher the wholistic health.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how high is your wholistic health recently?
For sobering perspective, see these recent
research summaries about epidemic
self-neglect among
Americans, and the toxic effects of
growing up in "risky" (low
nurturance) families. An implication is that typical
Americans aren't very interested in personal or family
wholistic health.
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