ABSTRACT
There are many ways family members can relate to each other. They can be loving or mean. They can treat others as objects to be controlled or conquered. They can be cooperative or competitive. They can be close or distant, empathetic or sympathetic, authoritarian or equalitarian, affectionate or unaffectionate. They can be open to innovations and changes or rigid and closed. They can be critical and demeaning or inspiring and uplifting. They can be gentle and tender or forceful and harsh, consistent and predictable or inconsistent and contradictory, friendly and soft or demanding and cruel, and so forth.
