In class, a very interesting topic came up that we continued to discuss. The topic was on family and how the family's unity or closeness with one another has changed. Years ago, the main job fathers had was to farm. In fact, the entire family helped and participated in farming and the things that came with that. Because of this, families were together the majority of the time and they were constantly working together. This created unity and strength within the family. However, now this is not the case at all. Fathers (and sometimes the mother as well) often work away from home leaving the children either alone or in the care of someone else. So then the discussion turned to talking about the benefits of working together as a family.
The benefits brought up were:
1. Family learns teamwork
2. Responsibility taught
3. Children learn the skill of problem solving
4. The family as a whole learns to communicate with each other
5. The children will pick up modeling skills (learning from the examples around them)

These are just a few of the benefits families have when they work together. Now I am not saying that families that have parents who work outside the home cannot learn these certain skills; but, the families who do things like farm together have easy access to this and they will learn these skills faster and can then apply them daily. Working together definitely has many benefits and came help a family become close.