"These days, it's so easy to give up on family. If you quarrel with a sibling, a parent, or a child and never want to talk to them again, or if you're a young person and don't want to have any children at all, there are always ersatz families on the television waiting to welcome you into their home.
"These families have the virtue of never asking a single thing of their viewers - other than to spend a little time watching. Maybe they have a lesson to teach or a few laughs to give. . . .
"Then, if there's no comfort to be had from television families, there are always internet subgroups.
"Perhaps this is the exact reason why people are quick these days to distance biological family or don't see the appeal of ever having children. Family seems an optional state of life. . . ."
In a recent commentary based on the writing of G. K. Chesterton, Father Michael Rennier
reflected on the polarizing effect of lack of family commitment and on how meeting the people God has placed in our lives can become the framework of personal growth.
To access Fr. Rennier's complete post, please visit:
Aleteia: Fr. Michael Rennier: G.K. Chesterton on why you need your annoying uncle (30 APR 23)
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