{"id":1257,"date":"2014-04-28T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2014-04-28T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T01:21:09","slug":"strong-families-have-common-characteristics-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/28\/strong-families-have-common-characteristics-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"STRONG FAMILIES HAVE COMMON CHARACTERISTICS &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1)\u00a0 COMMITMENT &#8211; work to promote each other&#8217;s happiness.\u00a0 They share meaningful experiences by setting family goals and carrying them out.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 EXPRESSED APPRECIATION &#8211; express appreciation thru words and actions.\u00a0 They let one another know how important they are.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 STRONG MARRIAGE &#8211; the health of the marriage influences a family&#8217;s well-being.\u00a0 Clear communication,\u00a0 mutual respect and self-disclosure are signs of a healthy marriage &amp; family.\u00a0 Crucial for blended families and single-parent families, but can be done.\u00a0 (4)\u00a0 TIME TOGETHER &#8211; strong families frequently work, play, eat and attend religious and social functions together.\u00a0 They cut\u00a0 down on outside involvements in order to have quality time together as a family.\u00a0 MORE TO COME!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1)\u00a0 COMMITMENT &#8211; work to promote each other&#8217;s happiness.\u00a0 They share meaningful experiences by setting family goals and carrying them out.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 EXPRESSED APPRECIATION &#8211; express appreciation thru words and actions.\u00a0 They let one another know how important they are.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 STRONG MARRIAGE &#8211; the health of the marriage influences a family&#8217;s well-being.\u00a0 Clear communication,\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}