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[quote=Anonymous]For us it is likely a combination of things. For one, our parents are really close to their siblings, and we spent a lot of time in our childhood at large family gatherings that form the base of our fondest childhood memories. That modeling created an expectation of what family is and how you behave in a family. So now our kids are also seeing the same modeling in action and have never been on a vacation that didn't include most of the cousins and even second and third cousins. We fought like a pack of wolves when we were little and had plenty of sibling rivalry. But if something was up, we were always there for each other. We also had a few significant family tragedies that required us become responsible for each other, but we knew how to do that because of that foundation of family modeling (and great neighborly behavior too -- which I add because if you don't have that family model for your kids, you can create it in your circle of friends).[/quote]
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