The Importance Of Family

DNA tests are wrong! Family can be defined in numerous ways that don 't involve a blood test, but instead by the daily activities people may associate themselves with. Coaches and organizations will express to players and members the desire to create a family atmosphere within the team/organization. The neighborhood pastor may claim that everyone is a family or related and part of the Body of Christ who may even greet others by replacing names with “brother or sister”. Teachers will work to eliminate segregation in the classroom and replace it with unity in order to create an open learning environment for students. Family is not only those who are biologically related, but can include those who belong to a team, are in a school classroom,

These groups spend countless hours working toward one or multiple goals together and supporting each other through the triumphs and the failures. Teams, at the beginning of the season, will set goals to achieve winning “x” games, having the perfect season, going to playoffs, receiving all “ones” in a band competition, or simply improving a skill. The organization will then spend more hours in a gym, on a field, or in a band hall together. An outstanding example of this is in the movie Remember the Titans. Two races were integrated and were put together on the same football field to run routes together, block for each other, and achieve Coach Boone 's goal of perfection: “We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile...Perfection. Let 's go to work”. During a two week training camp negative words and actions were expressed towards each other, by the coaches as well as the players. As the training camp went on the boys began to look out for each other, the offensive and defensive players began to sit together, they began to treat each other with respect, and became loyal to one another. During the camp, they learned discipline, loyalty, and how to look beyond the surface of another human being to see each other for what values and beliefs were at the core. Bertier, the team 's captain, explained to the hospital nurse, Alice, that team is family. When Julius walked in, “Alice, are you blind? Don 't you see the family resemblance? That 's my brother,” Julius was African American and Bertier was white. The team members fight like brothers, coaches support, teach, and care for the athletes like a mother or father would do. Teams in today 's society are exactly like the Titans, they have different beliefs, skin color, and goals; but a team can rely on one another to reach the objective,