Chapter 5 enlarGinG the CirCle Your Family Gets Bigger
A healthy social life is found only when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. —Rudolf Steiner
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haping Your Family’s Future discusses the relation between family and community because the family is no more isolated from the society in which it lives than you as parents are isolated from your family and its influences on your parenting. Sooner or later, every family decides how it will relate to the surrounding culture. This