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Premises: families exist in every age and culture because they (usually) fill a set of adult and child needs better than other types of groups - e.g. the needs for security, acceptance, sup-port, recognition, love, shelter, healthy touching, and companion-ship. Depending on the health, wisdom, and priorities of their leader/s and relatives, some families are more effective at filling their members' needs than others, over time. To nurture means to fill the needs of some living thing. So depending on how often all members' needs are well-filled, any family can be judged as being somewhere between "very low nurturance" and "very high nurturance." In this nonprofit divorce-prevention Web site, this is called the family's nurturan-ce level. Children raised in low-nurturance homes and families seem to develop up to six personality wounds which can signif-icantly affect their lives until the wounds are acknowledged and reduced. Co-parent Project 1 offers an effective framework for doing that over time. more detail / slides / related info / guidebook / close |
What is a Family